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From: kimes@ihlpe.ATT.COM (Kit Kimes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Comdex impressions
Message-ID: <4682@ihlpe.ATT.COM>
Date: 13 Apr 89 18:30:06 GMT
References: <8202@chinet.chi.il.us>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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From article <8202@chinet.chi.il.us>, by saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs):
> I just got back from Comdex.  

	So did I.  I had a good time, but was a little disappointed 
	with their display.

>                                           My impression was that 
> everyone who should have known for sure considered the 16 MB limit on disk
> partition size a dead issue (but the explanations varied).  
	
	Ralph ?, the guy that writes ST Report, is running a Beta
	version of TOS 1.4 and is regularly running with 32 Mb
	partitions, so I think it is a dead issue.

> The PC4, STACY and the Portfolio were spoken of as if the engineering on them
> was done, and production was imminent.  

	I was told that STacy would definitely be shipping is June.
	I'll find out for sure when I go back for the CES in June.
	I was also told that the CD-ROM was shipping now in small
	quantities and would be pushed when more software (disks)
	were available.  I tried to find out if the 520ST and 1040ST's
	were going to be distributed through mass merchandisers such
	as K-Mart, Sears, etc. now that the MEGA's were in 1,2 & 4 Meg
	versions, but no one would say.


					Kit Kimes  
					AT&T--Bell Laboratories
					...att!ihlpe!kimes