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From: alexd@milton.u.washington.edu (Alex Danilchik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Wordflair II note
Message-ID: <1991May11.150310.18488@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 11 May 91 15:03:10 GMT
References: <9105110423.AA01187@cwns10.INS.CWRU.Edu>
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <9105110423.AA01187@cwns10.INS.CWRU.Edu> aq009@cleveland.Freenet.Edu writes:
>
>boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd) writes:
>
>> Heehee, my buddy with the shiny new TT has received his Wordflair II.  The 
>> funny thing is, the "print" item is grayed out because 2mb is not enough 
>> memory for the program to print (to his Atari laser).  Sheesh!
>>

>to do these things to save memory.
>
>Of course, you could also suggest that he add more RAM to his system. 
>Really, a TT shouldn't have only two megs of memory...  It's quite
>limiting.  The nice thing about having lots of memory is not having to
>worry about those things.  :-)
>
>--
>   __    David Johnson    Michigan State University


I seem to recall "way back in time" talk about memory 
upgrades on a TT.  Allan Pratt said there was no easy way
to add memory, that one couldn't simply add simm modules.
To upgrade to 4 or 8 megs, you have to purchase the 
Atari daughter board (populated?).  I recall something like
a $1300 list difference between a TT/2 and a TT/8.  Are 
people actually paying this?  This seems way out of proportion.
$1300 for an additional 6 megs?  

Like the users above, I can't imagine using an 030 with only
2 megs of RAM.  Why did ATARI even make such an option?
If the machine was designed, as ATARI says, for power users..
CAD and DTP and engineering, it doesn't make much sense.

cheers!
gunnar
alexd@milton.u.washington.edu
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