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From: blevins@hpccc.HP.COM (David Blevins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: 520STFM recommendation for Atari
Message-ID: <5330001@hpccc.HP.COM>
Date: Tue, 23-Jun-87 14:15:19 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 23 14:15:19 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 26-Jun-87 06:56:33 EDT
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I will soon be buying a 520ST as a MIDI controller, and have been monitoring
various ST info sources for a month or so.

My main reservation about this machine is Atari's "attitude" towards its
users and developers.  I read something this weekend about Atari "not
wanting a 1040 to be hooked up to a TV and used as a game machine" or some
such rot.  I believe that the CUSTOMER will determine what he wants to do
with his computer, and doesn't need Atari's marketing dept. forcing him
to use the machine only for REAL applications.  (I will be buying a mono-
chrome system, and thus will rely on the RF modulator to be able to play
the many games that only run in color.)

Thus I don't expect Atari to listen when I recommend that during manufacture
of the 520 w/ the internal floppy, to please either populate the empty
RAM locations with sockets, or tape the boards before wave solder to facili-
tate easy upgrade to 1MB of RAM.  Your customers will love you for the fore-
sight you show in considering their future needs...

I would love to be pleasantly surprised!  



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