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Subject: Re: The future of the ST......(more info on A500 and SM125)
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Date: Tue, 24-Feb-87 20:12:42 EST
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Please don't forget that I'm quoting european mags and  Commodore Germany:
 
         -The price that I've seen quoted for the A500 + monitor, would make
          it about the same price as a mono 1040ST and about $100 cheaper
          than the price that was quoted for a 1MB Mega-ST (the A500 is
          suppose to have 512kB ram with an optional board with an additional
          512kB + clock).
          (Prices were mentioned in: Data Welt (normally quite well informed:
          annouced the Atari PC a month before CES)
          68'000er (that had a picture of the motherboard of a Mega-ST this
          month with this title: ....space reserved for the blitter. The
          problem is that there was NO room reserved for the blitter on the
          board as far as I could tell)).
 
The SM125 has completly replaced the SM125 here:
          Nice things:
            -swivel base
            -picture height and horizontal position adjustable from outside
             (as far as I can remeber )
          Not so nice things:
            -no contrast regulation
            -even worse adjusted than the SM124
            -paint or something like that put on the coils  (so that you
             can't align the picture yourself)
            -the knob everybody thinks is the contrast button is the volume
              pot (I've actully tried this on unsuspecting friends of mine)
            -doesn't have that solid feeling anymore (this is just a personal
             disliking)
            -picture size is VERY dependent on the brightness value
 
Perhaps the SM125 isn't quite as bad as I think, but you would expect that
if you'd replace the SM124 you would do it with something that is really better
 
 
                Simon Poole
                K538915@CZHRZU1A.BITNET