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From: neil@atari.UUCP (Neil Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Mega-ST release date?
Message-ID: <774@atari.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Jun-87 20:28:21 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 26 20:28:21 1987
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In article <1991@trwrb.UUCP>, sansom@trwrb.UUCP (Richard Sansom) writes:

> Neil, can you give us the name of some dealers who are going to be selling
> the Megas?  I've not been able to find anyone who thinks they (the Megas)
> will be available before September - they can't even give me a price yet.
> I then tried to order one directly from Atari (can you say "retail prices"?)
> but it turns out that Atari won't sell me one directly.

It's a sticky issue, but the fact is that the list of dealers who are
authorized to sell the Mega ST is not yet settled.

The systems are not yet available for sale -- we have about 30 Mega ST 4
computers here in the USA, being used strictly for evaluation by our
engineers, making sure there are no last-minute assembly line problems.

Note: these machines come with real manuals and everything, including the
blitter chips.

Real machines in the kind of quantity needed for resale should arrive
shortly.

Another note: the new ROMs do, in fact, work in the current ST's.  No word
yet on availability of these ROMs for end-users, but developers can obtain
them from the Atari developer support department.

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