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From: neil@atari.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: New Atari Products Revisited
Message-ID: <708@atari.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-Apr-87 12:39:21 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 10 12:39:21 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Apr-87 19:45:55 EST
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In article <186@osupyr.UUCP>, akw@osupyr.UUCP (FarOff MicroDesigns) writes:

> Neil, will the XE Game Machine come with keyboard expansion, etc. to make
> it a legitamate computer and NOT (I repeat **NOT**) a mutulated 800 like
> the 5200 "Super-dumb System" was?

Not only is there a keyboard expansion, but the keyboard is *included* when
you buy the unit.  This is ostensibly to provide a controller for more
sophisticated games that need the keyboard, like Flight Simulator (which
will be one of the three pieces of software bundled with the system).

You also get 64K of RAM, the standard XL/XE OS and BASIC in ROM, and an SIO
port.

Isn't marketing interesting?  Mass merchants who won't touch 8-bit computers
with a 10-foot pole are dying to get their hands on this XE game system.

-- 
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