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- From: unregistered@newcastle.ac.uk (I.A. Inman)
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- Subject: A1200 - No H.D drive, no 68030?
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- Date: 16 Nov 92 09:56:08 GMT
- Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU
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- The A1200 is a very nice machine - it might just yet stop me going PC.
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- Three complaints though.
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- 1) 68020 processor - the Atari Falcon has a 68030.
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- 2) An 880K floppy drive? Why not HD? It won't cost that much!
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- 3) No sound chip upgrade? It's sad to say the Atari now craps on us in that
- department.
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- Commodore have released the A1200 at the 400 pound price mark (U.K.). They
- should release a version with a hard drive (and preferably, a HD disk drive) for
- about 150 - 200 pounds more.
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- A new machine (Say A1800) could be released at the 600 pounds mark, this having
- a 68030 processor and more memory, and a new sound chip. This would give the
- Falcon some decent competition.
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- It is safe to say the A600 is the new C64 (strange when you can still buy a C64),
- with the A1200 being the early ninties A500. We may beat off the PC`s yet!
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- The beef sandwich
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