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From: braner@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (braner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: new Atari products (query)
Message-ID: <1987@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Sun, 11-Jan-87 00:24:05 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 11 00:24:05 1987
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The announced $200 monochrome monitor for the PC-clown:  it sounds
like a monochrome 'multi-sync' sort of thing.  Is it really GREEN?
Is there a monitor coming for the ST series (perhaps the same one?)
that will work with ALL THREE of the ST screen resolutions, showing
the colors as shades of off-white (not off-green)?

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.  Is it safe to predict the 1040 will go extinct?
Alternatively: since single-sided disk drives were obsolete even before
the day the first ST came out, and since the 1040 causes a lot less cable-
clutter, and since it is getting cheaper, is it the 520ST that will go
extinct?  (Of course the 520ST may be bundled with a DS drive...)

I'd like to know what SOFTWARE enhancements are in the Mega-ST, as
compared with the current TOS-ROM.  Also: is Atari going to erase
the small difference between ST and IBM disk formats?  (Reminder:
the ST CAN read and write IBM-Convertible 3.5" disks, but the IBM
will accept them only if FORMATTED on the IBM.)

- Moshe Braner