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From: gordon@sage.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Buying an Atari computer
Message-ID: <285@sage.cs.reading.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 24-Feb-87 04:26:04 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 24 04:26:04 1987
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Reply-To: gordon@sage.UUCP (Simon Gordon)
Organization: Comp. Sci. Dept., Reading Univ. UK.
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In article <855@ubc-cs.UUCP> manis@ubc-cs.UUCP (Vincent Manis) writes:
>I've had a lot of experience with another company (let's call it Fruit
>Computers, to avoid another one of those silly debates about which machine

That sounds like an apple of a story to me.

However, I too have had an ST for a long time - its one of the old 520's from
when they were launched in the UK (1 and a 1/2 years ago), and I agree, atari
have generally been very good.

For instance, both the blitter and the sound chip will be made available for
all ST's (when they become available) - have commodore said they will upgrade
the old blitters for the new improved ones? or add them to the new bottom of
the range machine? i think not (dont yell too loud if im wrong).

OK, you can't get the documentation seperately, but my dealers have been
good enough to let me brouse through bits when I needed too, and there are
several alternative sources of the info - they have mistakes, but I'm sure
the official docs do too.

I've always found atari helpfull, if a little slow (aren't they all).
And I intend to by a 4M mega ST this summer to replace my old 520, after all,
the software I have would cost even more to replace than the computer.

Simon GORDON@SAGE
Reading university
UK