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From: Xorg@cup.portal.com (Peter Ted Szymonik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: future atari owner needs help
Message-ID: <13204@cup.portal.com>
Date: 5 Jan 89 04:42:09 GMT
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Very quickly - call J&R Music and Computer in NYC, they *will* mail
order Atari computers.  Last time I checked they were asking $1,299
for a Mega 2 mono system.  Then contact Software Distributors of America
(found on CompuServe and GEnie) and buy a Supra 30 meg drive $649.  If
you want one buy an extrenal SF314 DD drive for another $200 (really
unecessary with the HD.)  You've just spend a little over $2,000 and have
one of the most powerful packages out there.  C programming on the ST is
a breeze and both Mark WIlliams an Laser are excellent.  There is no
such thing as a 1040+, The Mega 2 runs faster than the 1040 and has
the blitter chip which makes a big difference in the speed of grpahic
displays.  Add another $400-500 for Spectre 128, a set of Mac Plus ROMS,
and Happy's Discovery Cart and you have a premire Mac Plus emulator to
boot that runs all major software packages at speeds that are *faster*
than a real Mac Plus or SE.  Strong rumors are also out that this year
will see the intro of a hardware add on box for the ST that will allow
AT emulation at 100% speeds.  Enough said - enjoy!

Pete