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From: calway@ecsvax.UUCP (James Calloway)
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Subject: Re: New Atari machines (home UNIX at last?)
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Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 23:58:34 EST
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The InfoWorld article came pretty close. Here is what Atari's marketing manager, Bryan Kerr, described
during and after the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show:

Atari's new ST line is based on the 68000 chip, running at 8 megahertz.
The 130ST will have 128K and sell for $399. The 520ST will have 512K, $599.
If there is demand, there may be an in-between model, the 260ST.
These machines will use external Sony 3 1/2-inch drives, priced at about $150
each. The computers will have build-in interfaces for floppy disk AND hard disk.
 The hard disk is due later in the year, 10 megabytes, $600.
The operating system was developed jointly by Atari and Digital Research and 
is stored with DR's Graphics Environment Manager in 192K of ROM.

The new low-end machines are the 65XE, a replacement for the 800XL, the 130XE
with 128K and the 65XEP, a portable with a small CRT screen.

If Atari can deliver the goods, this should be an interesting year.



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James  Calloway
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