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Subject: Re: Mega-ST release date?
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Date: Sat, 20-Jun-87 14:38:07 EDT
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To expand a bit further on my question about the an 'official' release
date for the Mega-ST's, just a few more remarks:

There has been a lot of conflicting information (rumours) about the
availabilty of the Mega-ST's, some claim they are already being sold
in the UK, some that it can only be days before they are going to be
sold in the US, some that they will be sold without blitter (this is
from Data Becker which are normally very well informed, they knew
about the Atari PC two months before it was officially annouced),
some that they have been delayed to the end of the year so that they
can be sold together with the laser printer. The reason that I would
like an official statement is that our department is (was) going to buy
another lot of ST's as terminals (we already have 20). If we could
really count on Mega-ST's being available in a time span < two months
we would probably wait and give them a try, as the situation presents
itsself now, I think we would be better off looking at alternatives.

Anyway, some more (possibly not so serious) news from German magazines:

        -the new 'blitter ROM's' where 'tested' by a representative
         of the technical departement of Atari Germany in '68'000er'
         and in another mag: supposedly RTS/CTS has been fixed and
         a few other things improved, the man claimed that they will
         run without changes in a 1040 (something Atari US has always
         refused to comment about on this net).

        -Basic haters (I'm one too :-)) rejoice, 'Data Welt' had two
         reports on the 'new' ST-Basic with result: its just as bad
         as the old version (at least something Atari does right).

        -as I mentioned before, 'Data Welt' claims that the Mega-ST's
         will be supplied without blitters, which will not be available
         before the end of the year according to the report. Ah well,
         why should Atari deprave the rest of the industry of the best
         joke it has? (It could naturally be replaced by 'GDOS'.)


                        Simon Poole
                        K538915@CZHRZU1A.BITNET