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From: neil@atari.UUcp (Neil Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 520STFM recommendation for Atari
Message-ID: <798@atari.UUcp>
Date: Wed, 29-Jul-87 12:42:28 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 29 12:42:28 1987
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In article <8707281133.AA11417@work1.icase>, csrobe@ICASE.ARPA (Charles S. Roberson) writes:
> i had heard that with the advent of the mega-st's that Atari was going
> to cut production costs on the ST's.  to do so, they were going to
> start putting 520s into 1040 boxes, and stop producing two casings.
> that would explain why a 520 now has (f)loppy disk inside of it and
> why a 1040 now has a frequency (m)odulator in it.  i haven't seen any
> of these new beasts but that is my guess.

There are no modulators in the current 1040ST's.  

There are a few 1040ST's in this world with modulators, produced as special
items, and some of these may have "leaked" out to consumers.  There is still
no plan to include modulators in production 1040ST's.
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