Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!husc6!husc4!grunau_b From: grunau_b@husc4.harvard.edu (justin grunau) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: new Atari products (query) Message-ID: <982@husc6.UUCP> Date: Sun, 11-Jan-87 11:45:10 EST Article-I.D.: husc6.982 Posted: Sun Jan 11 11:45:10 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Jan-87 22:45:53 EST References: <1987@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Sender: news@husc6.UUCP Reply-To: grunau_b@husc4.UUCP (justin grunau) Organization: Harvard Science Center Lines: 33 In article <1987@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> braner@batcomputer.UUCP (braner) writes: . . . >About the future of the 1040ST: The people who just want the ST's >power for using games, word-processors, etc buy the 520ST, while the >1040ST is the favorite among programmers and such - which will obviously >switch to the Mega-ST. . . . >- Moshe Braner Um, I've been thinking about this, and I am very curious to hear how anybody might figure out how those of us who are "programmers and such" will "switch to the Mega-ST". From everything I've heard about it, that is exactly what I would like to do this very minute -- save some desktop space and get an improved keyboard, not to mention everything else! No, strike that. What I wish is that I had waited until the Mega-ST came out! Honestly, how are those of us who have 1040STs going to sell them off now that the Mega-STs are out and our 1040s have dropped in retail price to probably significantly below what we paid for them? Even without considering taking the bite in price-drop, how are we going to find a market for used 1040s now that they have been made obsolete? I am fantastically glad and excited about these new developments: but for my own personal purposes, I am concerned ... JJMG { seismo | rutgers | decvax!ihnp4 } !husc6!husc4!grunau_b