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From: rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Info about the Windsor Atari Show
Message-ID: <5227.2828199f@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
Date: 8 May 91 20:30:39 GMT
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This past weekend I attended the Windsor Atari show, so I thought I
would let everyone know what happened there. (this is all from memory,
so some things might be wrong.)

Stacy's, Mega STe's, and TT's were all around. (I think I saw only three
or four 1040 ST's, and they weren't doing much.) Gadgets by Small was
there, showing the 33 MHz 68030 upgrade board for ST's. (Even for 1040
ST's, but it does require you to put your computer into a bigger case.)
I didn't get to play with it though.

Atari had a booth there, with some ingenius "pop-up" bochures for the
Mega STe and the TT.

The seminars were where most of the good stuff came from though!

Bob Brodie for US Atari and Jeff "something" from Canada Atari talked
for a little while, and then held a Q&A session. Some of the key points
are:

FSM GDOS will cost <$100, but I don't remember a release date. (He (Bob)
didn't give a definate date though)

Atari has purchased the source code to Word Up! but Bob couldn't say
what for.

All Mega STe's and TT's have the drive controller chip socketed so that
a 1.44M drive upgrade would be simple. Their engineers in Israel have
reverse engineered the WD1772? chip.

They plan on phasing out the Stacy in favor of the ST notebook, which
will be shown at Fall Comdex.

The 8-bit computers are being phased out also. Reasons were that a 130XE
with disk drive comes real close to the price of a 520STFM.

Thats about everything I can remember now, I wish I would've took a tape
recorder with me, or at least a notebook!! (I will be prepared for the
next one though. (In Chicago in November)

Anyway, this was my first Atari show, and it was kinda neat to be able
to places faces with names.

Later.....

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