Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site kontron.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!pesnta!pertec!kontron!steve From: steve@kontron.UUCP (Steve McIntosh) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari Subject: Re: Re: ANTIC Online CES Wrapup report Message-ID: <319@kontron.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 12:19:23 EDT Article-I.D.: kontron.319 Posted: Wed Jul 3 12:19:23 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 07:29:01 EDT References: <219@bocar.UUCP> <195@cositex.UUCP> Organization: Kontron Electronics, Irvine, CA Lines: 18 > ... what is the difference between > buying the smaller model or the larger model? It seems as if > they both ultimately have the same amount of usable RAM! I > am not referring to updates to the 520ST where GEM & TOS will > be built in, but rather to the machines available now (or soon). > Why buy the present 520 over the present 260? > > Steve Sanderson, COSI Texas According to the West Coast Atari distributer, they don't expect to see any of the smaller machines until late fall - in time for the xmas rush. By then, the 520 is expected to have TOS and/or GEM in rom, and you will recover the ram space. [Believe it or not, quite a few people I know of could care less about GEM - on disk or in ROM. And they are ALL going to buy ST's if they don't buy Amiga's.]