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- We have been busy developing the following...it has used up all our
- resources and energy...buy we are glad to be able to deliver it 6 months
- ahead of schedule!
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- Official Press Release:
- May 5, 1996
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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- New 68060 / 68040 based TT Clones from Computer Direct are now available!
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- The DirecT40 and the DirecT60 are based on the same motherboard design,
- simply swapping out the socketed 68040 and plugging in a 68060 results in
- an instant upgrade!
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- DirecT40 is a MC68040 33/66 MHz Atari TT clone. DirecT60 is a MC68060 60MHz
- Atari TT clone. DirecT40/T60 are housed in a PC style tower case which
- allows for up to 5 - 5.25" devices and 3 - 3.5" internal drives. This means
- that you will have plenty of room for SyQuest Drives, Tape BackUps, CD
- Recorders and Players and any other device that would require an open front
- drive bay plus you would still have room for up to three hard drives!
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- The open architecture design of the motherboard allows for interfacing with
- the low cost and readily available PC peripherals such as EIDE hard disks,
- SCSI hard disks, DD, HD, ED floppy disks, PCI and/or ISA ET4000 or Mach 64
- graphics cards, SVGA/VGA Monitors, AT style keyboards and more! Adding
- memory is as easy as popping in PS/2 SIMMS! 8 memory slots organized in 4 +
- 1 banks allow for expansion right up to 1 Gigabyte! Hey, who needs a hard
- drive with a Gigabyte RAM disk!
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- All DirecT40/T60 enjoy the standard TT external ports, SCSI, Modem 1, Modem
- 2, LAN, MIDI in and MIDI out. For those who need cartridge port and ACSI
- (DMA) port we will be offering in the near future the DirecT40/T60 Plus
- which has a full ST compatible I/O card.
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- Technical Specifications:
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- Case:
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- Full size tower case with 6 - 5.25" open front bays (one is used for
- floppy), 3 - 3.5" internal bays, 250 Watt power supply, dual fan
- ventilation system, CSA / UL approved.
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- Dimensions: 620mm (H) x 190mm (W) x 455mm (D) Weight 2.5 Kg.
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- Installed Peripherals:
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- Keyboard: AT 101 key.
- Floppy: 1 with DD, HD and ED compatibility.
- Hard Drive: Quantum 850 Mb EIDE Hard Drive.
- Memory: 4 Mb minimum, expandible to 1 Gigabyte via 8 slots, 72 pin (PS/2) SIMM.
- Video: ISA bus ET4000 graphics card with 1 Mb DRAM and NVDI ET4000 driver,
- Resolution: 640 x 480 x 16.7 Million Colours, 800 x 600 x 65K, 1024 x 768 x
- 256 and 1280 x 1024 x 16 colours.
- (expandible to PCI bus ATI Mach 64 with up to 4 Mb VRAM.)
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- DirecT40 Technical data:
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- Processor: MC68040 33/66MHz
- Processing Power: 29.5 MIPS
- Comparison: TT030 - 7 MIPS Factor Increase: over 4x's
- Falcon030 - 3.74 MIPS Factor Increase: over 7x's
- ST - 1 MIP?? Factor Increase: over 29x's
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- DirecT60 Technical data:
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- Processor: MC68060 60MHz
- Processing Power: 120 MIPS
- Comparison: DirecT40 - 29.5 MIPS Factor Increase: over 4x's
- TT030 - 7 MIPS Factor Increase: over 17x's
- Falcon030 - 3.74 MIPS Factor Increase: over 32x's
- ST - 1 MIP?? Factor Increase: over 120x's
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- MIPS is Millions of Instructions per second and is used to rate processing
- power and speed.
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- Internal ports:
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- 4 PCI-bus slots
- 2 ISA-bus slots
- 1 VME-bus slot
- 1 EIDE (enhanced IDE) with max. 10MB/s for 2 devices
- 1 SCSI with max. 4MB/s for 1-7 devices (TT compatible)
- 1 floppy (DD/HD/ED) d.h. max 2.88MB
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- External ports:
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- Modem 1 (25 pin Dsub-connector) with max. 19,200 baud
- Modem 2 (9 pin Dsub-connector) with max. 250,000 baud
- Local talk (8 pin Mini Din) with max. 250,000 baud
- Printer 25 pin Dsub (TT/Falcon-compatible)
- Midi-In/Out
- PC keyboard connector (standard)
- mouse and joystick (Atari compatible)
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- Pricing Information:
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- DirecT40:
- The complete system, including medium height tower case, 68040 processor
- with FPU, 4MB RAM, 850Mb hard drive, floppy drive, graphics card,
- PC-keyboard and mouse is $3799.99 Cdn. or $2739.99 US. or less**. FOB
- Edmonton.
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- DirecT60:
- The complete system, including medium height tower case, 68040 processor
- with FPU, 4MB RAM, 850Mb hard drive, floppy drive, graphics card,
- PC-keyboard and mouse is $4499.99 Cdn. or $3239.99 US. or less**. FOB
- Edmonton.
-
- ** Please Note, since these machines use standard PC/IBM compatible
- peripherals, due to market conditions on these parts the actual street
- price will vary, usually downward as the trends on these parts are
- following this path currently. Check with us for daily pricing.
-
- Dealer enquiries are welcomed.
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- Other configurations are available on request! Every DirecT40/T60 is custom
- built by Computer Direct. This allows us to build the system that you want,
- not the system somebody wants to sell you!
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- Compatibility:
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- DirecT40/T60 is fully compatible with all cleanly written GEM applications
- that run on a stock TT. Software which accesses hardware directly will not
- run. Some examples would be Warp 9 (VDI) and Software which requires TT
- High, cartridge port and ACSI (DMA) port. DirecT40/T60 Plus motherboards
- will overcome many of these problems due to the integrated ST I/O card
- which contains the original Atari hardware. DirecT40 and T60 have been
- tested extensively with the following software:
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- Please note: Products with known bugs on ST/TT are still listed as Yes,
- these programs still exhibit these bugs on DirecT40/T60 but are just as
- useable as on an ST/TT. Comments are added for some problem apps. Comments
- followed by "*" refer to DirecT40/T60 Plus motherboards with ST I/O card.
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- Application Type Comments
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- 7 up text editor yes
- ACS development yes
- Argon backup yes
- ATARI Works 1.0 word pro, database, spreadsheet yes
- Arabesque Pro 2 graphic yes
- Avant Vektor vector tracer yes
- Calamus SL DTP yes
- Calligrapher word processor yes
- Chagall demo yes
- Charly Image graphic yes
- Connect telecomms yes
- Convector vector tracer yes
- Crazy Sounds II utility yes
- Cubase 3.x MIDI/music yes, only ST-high*
- Cypress 1.5 word processor yes
- DA's Layout TC desktop publisher yes
- Da's Picture graphic yes
- DA's Repro graphic yes
- DA's Vector vector edit/trace yes
- DA's Vector Pro vector edit/trace/animation yes
- DeskPic Desktop picture yes
- Digitape harddrive-sampler yes, no DSP-sound*
- Diskus disk utility yes
- DynaCADD CAD yes
- Ease Desktop yes
- Edison editor yes
- Everest editor yes
- Fractals graphic yes
- Freeway database yes
- Gemini Desktop yes
- GEM-View graphic-converter yes
- GEMRAM utility yes
- GFA-Assembler language yes
- GFA-Basic language yes
- GFA-Compiler compiler yes
- GT-Look scanner-software yes, set cookies like TT
- HD Driver hard disk driver yes
- Harlekin utility yes
- In Touch Personal info Manager yes
- Inshape demo raytracer yes
- Interface RCS yes
- Kadinsky vectorgraphic yes
- Kobold copier yes
- LHarc packer yes
- Lazy-Shell packer-shell yes
- Linux 68/k operating system yes
- Maxidat database yes
- Megapaint pro graphic program yes
- Meta-DOS CD-ROM driver yes, but problems?
- Midichord MIDI yes
- Midnight screensaver yes
- Morpher graphic yes, with FPU-Emulator
- MIDIMAZE game yes, but inverted
- Notator Logic MIDI/music yes, only ST-high*
- NVDI ET-4000 screen accelerator yes
- Outline Art vector edit/trace yes
- Overlay graphic yes, without NVDI ET4000
- Oxyd game yes
- PageStream 2.x desktop publishing yes
- Papillon graphic yes
- Papyrus document processor yes
- Phoenix database yes
- Pixart graphic yes
- Phase IV graphic yes
- PhotoLine graphic yes
- PKS-Edit editor yes
- Poison virus finder yes
- Positive Image graphic yes
- POV-Ray Raytracer yes, with FPU-Emulator
- Pure C language yes
- Pure Pascal language yes
- RSC RSC yes
- ReproStudioPro image editor yes
- Script text program yes
- SCSI-Tools hard disk driver yes
- Selectric file selector yes
- StudioPhoto image editor yes
- Signum III text program yes
- Speedo 4&5 utility yes
- ST-Zip packer yes
- SysMon utility yes
- Tempus-Word text program yes
- TMS-Paint graphic yes
- Beta-CranachStudio graphic yes
- Beta-Compact graphic yes
- Beta-Vektor graphic yes
- TruePaint graphic yes
- Turbo C language yes
- Twilight screensaver yes, not all modules wor
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- Twist database yes
- Winx utility yes
- XBoot utility yes
- ZOO packer yes
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- Ordering and Quotations:
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- Computer Direct
- 10338-59 Avenue
- Edmonton, Alberta
- Canada. T6H 1E6
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- Toll Free (US and Canada): 800-547-9203 (orders only please)
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- Tel: 403-496-2488 Fax: 403-496-2489
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- Internet: http://compdirect.com
- e-mail: info@compdirect.com
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- All the best,
-
- Chris J. Krowchuk
- President
- Computer Direct
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- Computer Direct e-mail: info@compdirect.com
- 10338-59 Avenue Info and Support:(403)496-2488
- Edmonton, Alberta 24 Hour Fax Line:(403)496-2489
- Canada. T6H 1E6 Toll Free Orders:(800)547-9203
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- Visit us on the Internet! http://www.compdirect.com
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- Internet : Carl.Lofgren@abc.se
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