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From: scott@cs.odu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: I love it!
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Date: 25 Jan 89 03:11:56 GMT
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>Selling complete system Atari 1040 STF+ computer. Comes with:
 [...]

>	The computer itself uses a 68000 Microprocessor running at 
>	8 Mhz. It comes with 1Mb expendable to 4Mb.
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  I love it!  I have been following this   disgustion   on the expandable
1040st.  Now I am confused-- can the 1040 be upgraded (easily) and is this
upgrade reliable?  And the blitter?  I thought the answers were NO, NO and
NO (In that order).  So, to upgrade you must buy a mega, right?


>	Price: $1050.   shipping included...
>	Hurry up!! It's a bargain....

   Maybe I got lucky... I got the same deal plus mouse pad, modem cable, 
printer cable and dust cover for $800.  There were also mac sacs advertised
on the net just a while ago-- I don't see that in the listing?  That ST 
needs a mac sac to run the mac stuff, right?

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  Now that I've got your attention, I have a couple more questions.  The
first has to do with disk formatting.  I usually buy fairly reliable disks
(I just bought some 2nd ibm disks that are sad, but I just use them for
/tmp files...) and I was just wondering about all these formatting programs
I see floating around.  9, 10 and now 11 sectors.... 80, 81 and now 82 tracks
700, 800 and now I can format my disks with 923k.  Just when I thought it was
safe to format a disk I found one with some sort of track offset (I just
forgot the name... ) but it is supposed to speed up reading by 50% BUT
even the docs say that it is NOT recommended!  WHAT IS THE DEAL?  Can any
of these formatting procedure harm the drive by over extending a mechanism
here or there?  Are there any real problems besides loss of data?

  My next question is a probably much easier to answer.... if I wanted to 
port something over from a vax or a sun system and compile it on my st--
would this be an easy task?  Can programs be easily moved?  I am just 
starting with C but I just want to know if it is feasable-- I hear that you
can do this quite easily with an Amiga... and I thought that it would also
be just as easy with an ST.... but, I could be wrong.

   Scott D. Yelich                           scott@cs.odu.edu  [128.82.8.1]