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From: jafischer@watrose.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 520 in Canada
Message-ID: <8575@watrose.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Mar-87 00:53:08 EST
Article-I.D.: watrose.8575
Posted: Mon Mar 16 00:53:08 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 17-Mar-87 00:49:46 EST
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Reply-To: jafischer@watrose.UUCP (Jonathan Fischer)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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Keywords: 520 ST, 1040 case

>	A 1040 ST Package *marked* 520 ST on the exterior.
>	It came with a single sided internal drive and monitor.
	This is the packaging that all 520's have been sold in for a couple of
months now, in Canada.  As far as is obvious to the eye, it contains a 1040
motherboard with only one row of 256K chips instead of two... yes, someone
told me that to upgrade to 1 Meg it IS as simple as plugging in the second
row of chips.  Still a lot of soldering, but much simpler than the old piggy
back method.
	The other difference is that it contains the RF modulator.  The only
problem with this packaging is that it forces the buyer to be stuck with a
single sided drive.  Of course you can always buy a second DS drive, but
I've found that mixing a SS and DS drive doesn't make much sense.  I had
such a configuration once, and all my disks eventually migrated over to
DS, and I sold my SS drive.
	Canada is one of Atari's test markets, and that is why we usually see
such products before the much larger US market.  The 1040 was in Canada about
2 months before its introduction in the states, if I remember correctly.
	Gee, I wonder if that means we'll get the Megas first...
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		- Jonathan Fischer   (jafischer@watrose.UUCP)
	    	or ...watmath!watrose!jafischer