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From: trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: News tidbits
Message-ID: <245@stag.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Oct-87 09:37:58 EDT
Article-I.D.: stag.245
Posted: Tue Oct 20 09:37:58 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 23-Oct-87 07:08:19 EDT
References: <4437@zen.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey )
Organization: Mindtools ST Access Group, Plymouth, MN
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Keywords: blitter ROM Word Perfect

In article <4437@zen.berkeley.edu> c9c-eh@dorothy.Berkeley.EDU (Warner Young (WHY)) writes:
>	Blitter!  ROMs!  According to the salesman at this same store, the
>blitter upgrade will be a motherboard swap for 520 owners.  It may be a
>routine chip attachment for 1040s, but 520s HAVE to have the motherboard
>exchanged.

If so (and Atari doesn't make any provision for all of us who have
done on-board upgrades to one meg...over 3/4 of the ST owners that I
know of in the Twin Cities) then Atari is going to lose a lot of loyal
supporters in this area. Starting with me and most of the local ST
developers and club members.

>	I saw two more CAD packages in the stores:  FirstCAD from Generic
>Software, and Athena II, from I don't remember.  Both are supposed to be

FirstCAD is great, but it has been out since last November...sounds
like your store is a little behind...

  -Todd Burkey
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