Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!laura!atoenne
From: atoenne@laura.UUCP (Andreas Toenne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Atari Fair in Duesseldorf this Weekend
Message-ID: <580@laura.UUCP>
Date: 4 Sep 88 21:10:16 GMT
Reply-To: atoenne@laura.UUCP (Andreas Toenne)
Organization: University of Dortmund, W-Germany
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Hi Atari Fans (Haters ?)

as an employee of an exhibitor for Smalltalk80 on MegaST (great stuff anyway)
I visited the German Atari fair in Duesseldorf today.
Among lots of *very* boring software and demos I found the following...

TOS 1.4 alife and kicking (actually on the machine next to me).
It's fast and shows a good feeling for hard disks (though i discovered a bug
in the first ten minutes. But hey! who expects a beta version to be bug free?)
I was told that the main schedule for the ROMs is end of november.

A 1280@960 points screen compatible to most Atari products (including our
Smalltalk80) for about 5000 DM (thats 2500-3000$). Lots of $$ but a
nice and high quality product.

The legendary Atari CD ROM!!!
It's real.

The Atari transputer machine (just another demo, but the machine works still :-)

Lots of rumours about the TT. Seems Atari is really working on it.

	Andreas Toenne