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From: SOFPJF@UOGUELPH.BITNET (Peter Jaspers-Fayer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: New ROMs
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Date: Thu, 19-Nov-87 08:24:18 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 19 08:24:18 1987
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    I went to the Canadian Computer Show earlier this week (a sort of
mini-COMDEX), and asked about the availability (to the general public!)
of the BLIT and the new ROMs as a retrofit to the 1040/520.  No one at
the Atari booth knew anything at all.   All I could get was "Only the
boys in California know for sure".  Some version of the BLIT was out at
least a year ago (I saw one at the same show LAST year).

    So how about it, Mr.s Harris, Pratt, et. al?  Are the BLIT and the
new ROMs going to be available for us non-developers, and if so, when?

    Also (speaking of upgrades), why do the non-solder memory upgrade
boards come from everyone else BUT Atari?  I know, they want us to buy
Megas, but gee, even IBM sells you extra memory for their mainframes,
if that's what you want to do (instead up upgrading the CPU).
 /PJ