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From: steve@kontron.UUCP (Steve McIntosh)
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Subject: Re: Re: ANTIC Online CES Wrapup report
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Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 12:19:23 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  3 12:19:23 1985
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> 	... 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.]