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Subject: Re: new Atari products (query)
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Date: Tue, 13-Jan-87 09:41:01 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 13 09:41:01 1987
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In article <982@husc6.UUCP>, grunau_b@husc4.harvard.edu (justin grunau) writes:
> 
> 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?
> 

This was my first reaction as a 520ST owner after the 1040ST came out.
However, I realized that you can never hold back progress, and if I
upgraded to the 1040ST, I would be soon in the same boat when the next
(current) generation of STs came out. My solution? I bought a hard disk
and found the 520 to be all the machine I could want. But I may add that
while 520 is all the machine I could want, the software (and especially
the documentation) available leaves much to be desired (too expensive
and of poor quality).

As long as the MEGA systems are OBJECT code compatable with the STs
(so that you can safely invest in software that will useable when you
DO upgrade because the cost to do so is so low you can't resist), and
as long as the Atari PC is SUPPLIED with GEM (so that more GEM applications
will be written that can potentially be ported to the ST), I welcome
the new additions. If substantial incompatabilities exist however, then
the new additions will just muddle and confuse things more than they
already are.