Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rochester!cornell!batcomputer!braner 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 Article-I.D.: batcompu.1987 Posted: Sun Jan 11 00:24:05 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Jan-87 22:35:42 EST Reply-To: braner@batcomputer.UUCP (braner) Organization: Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY Lines: 24 Summary: This posting on a lower key... [] 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