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From: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: SIMMs for the STE
Keywords: SIMM, STE,
Message-ID: <4592@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>
Date: 8 Mar 90 09:24:00 GMT
References: <2703@erix.ericsson.se> <2069@atari.UUCP> <2668@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
Organization: Computer Science, Heriot-Watt U., Scotland
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In article <2668@castle.ed.ac.uk> aimd@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Davidson) writes:
>Obviously Atari never bothered to tell UK magazines that the SIMMS
>weren't a feature of the machine so when they opened the machine SIMMS
>were what they found - can you blame them for assuming this to be a
>'feature' of the machine (rather like the square 68000 being a 'feature')?

I do blame them!
It's people making assumptions that have given the ST a bad name so far.
Look at all the software that breaks on TOS 1.4 and 1.6 because of
'assumptions'. Unless Atari say so officially then nothing is guaranteed.

If your STE has SIMMs, congratulations. If not, too bad, that's the luck of
the draw. Does anyone think it unreasonable to ask a dealer to supply an STE
that definately has SIMMs an not SIPs? I can't imagine many dealers opening
them up for you to have a look. If SIP machines don't sell then Atari might
change their policy but few buyers would ever be aware of the difference.

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