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From: bds@lzaz.ATT.COM (BRUCE SZABLAK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari 1040ST availability
Message-ID: <62@lzaz.ATT.COM>
Date: 16 Feb 88 13:27:38 GMT
References: <424@lakesys.UUCP> <53@lzaz.ATT.COM> <281@sp7040.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T ISL Middletown NJ USA
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In article <281@sp7040.UUCP>, jsp@sp7040.UUCP (John Peters) writes:
> In article <53@lzaz.ATT.COM>, bds@lzaz.ATT.COM (BRUCE SZABLAK) writes:
> > In article <424@lakesys.UUCP>, joe@lakesys.UUCP (Joe Pantuso) writes:
> > > I intended to order an Atari 1040 ST color system today.  I have been
> > > slavishly saving my money for months and months now...
> > 
> > A suggestion: Buy a 520 and use the left over cash to buy the software
> > that will make your box more than an expensive paper weight. You HAVE
> > priced the software your going to need?
> 
> 	An admiral Idea except for one little thing, WHAT IF I RUN OUT
> OF MEMORY.  Well the ST is not a vertual machine.  That means you have
> to have available whatever memory you are going to use.  One might just
> think that 512K for a single user machine is a GODs plenty.  Well its not.

The point I was trying to make (and failed miserably) is that when buying
a computer system you should understand that the investment in software
may well end up being a sizeable precentage of the machine cost. The
original writer gave me the impression that he could barely afford the
1040 let alone the software he would need to run it. I will admit that
a bare 520 is a little small (particular in the floppy) but with the
addition of a hard disk, it becomes quite reasonable. My mistake was
not mentioning the investment such peripherals also add to the system
price. If you can afford the 1040, the peripherals, and the software
you need (and think its worth it), then by all means buy one. I for
one wish I could buy a Sun Workstation with all the trimmings...