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Subject: News from Cebit '89
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Date: 15 Mar 89 00:13:37 GMT
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   I asked if anyone was coming to the Cebit '89 at Hannover, West Germany.
Well, thanks to the people who responded.  Unfortunately, I overestimated the
digest turn-around speed, so I had gone before any of the replies reached me.

   For that same reason, I guess by the time I write this, a lot of reports
from Cebit have come in, but I haven't seen any.  So, here are the new things
I've seen and heard.

   Atari Germany has found a new excuse: TOS 1.4 *is* there, they say, but they
don't have ROMs in quantity yet, so they can't officially (!) announce it. They
were displaying the new big monocrome screen (SM 129, price as yet undecided),
but couldn't demo it, because the screen driver (done by Ken B. & others) needs
TOS 1.4 to work, and Atari Germany had *only 2* machines with 1.4 ROMs avail-
able in Hannover. That would, for once, confirm that excuse.

   I know *I* am going to get TOS 1.4 sometime next week (from where I'd rather
not say :-), but if it's really finished, I can't understand why Atari doesn't
make a copy available for the general public, so that at least those who own an
EPROM burner can make their own ROMs.

   The ATW was shown in the new tower-like case, but the demo program looked
just like the one they had last September at the Atari Fair in  Duesseldorf.

   The TT and TT/X *supposedly* will be shown in September at the '89 Atari
Fair, again in Duesseldorf.

   Lots of new software, but nothing really impressive, except maybe Tempus
Word, which is a Tempus-like word processor (available IV/89 for ~ DM 650).

   The CD ROM was quoted as "now being shipped to dealers." There was a pre-
release of the complete PD collection of the German 'ST Computer' magazine,
all on one CD. No price yet.

   No new laser printer / postscript emulator etc.


   I probably missed a lot. I also got the impression that every Atari person
told different stories, so don't be surprised if what I'm saying turns out to
be all wrong ... ;-)

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