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From: john@viper.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Does an "atari PC" exist?
Message-ID: <618@viper.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Mar-87 02:11:55 EST
Article-I.D.: viper.618
Posted: Wed Mar  4 02:11:55 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 6-Mar-87 06:45:07 EST
References: <914@bentley.UUCP>
Reply-To: john@viper.UUCP (John Stanley)
Organization: DynaSoft Systems
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In article <914@bentley.UUCP> angel@bentley.UUCP writes:
 >I recently heard that Atari has a PC clone. It allegedly doesnt
 >have add in slots, but comes will fully memory (640K), a PGA
 >equivalent, floppy and hard disk controllers, serial and
 >parallel ports. And all for less than $500.
 >
 >Has anybody out there heard of such a beast?
 >

Yes.  Heard-of and seen....  
Looks like a nice machine.  I'll probably buy one in a few months...

BTW, it does have 1 expansion slot (so I was told) and Atari has plans
to sell and expansion box with additional slots and maybe room and power
supply for a hard drive that will plug into the existing slot.  The $500
price is for the machine without monitor...  If you want their multi-mode
mono monitor (auto detects color signals and synthisyzes gray-scale
substitutions to display the color modes) the machine+monitor is ~= $700.

I figure $700 is more than reasonable for a 640k, 
mono/graphics + CGA + EGA machine with both
serial and printer ports built in...

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John Stanley (john@viper.UUCP)
Software Consultant - DynaSoft Systems
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