At 06:20 AM 8/25/98 +0000, you wrote:
>> 520ST does indeed run GEM; it's about equivalent to a Mac Plus or so.
>
> Not to start a flame-war or anything but I have a 4 meg Mac+ and there's no
>way it is the equivalent of an ST. The only thing they had in common was the
Well, certainly, a 4mb Mac+ (with what current version of the opsys?) is
going to be faster etc. than a stock 520ST running TOS 1.0. But, compare a
4MB ST with TOS 1.4 (or 1.6?) with "the various add-ons" and I think you'll
find they're pretty equivalent. Vastly different footprints, however,
something that I find rather interesting.
Mind you, a lot more software was developed for the Mac, at least partially
because Tramiel never bothered to advertise the ST (or for that matter,
stocked them in the US.)
> I have friends that use it in live performance and it is still used
>extensively in studios, especially in Europe, tho the Atari Falcon or one of
>it's clones are now preferred because of thier built-in DTD capabilities.
Yep. I got two Falcons just before my mom passed away; Shortly thereafter
I moved back home to take care of my dad and my studio is still mostly
disassembled. *sigh* Someday, however, I'll get it all set up again, and
finish off the album I was working on.
>> The 800XL is an updated version of the venerable 800. Has BASIC built-in
>> and only one cartridge. Nice machine.
>>
> There's a local BBS that uses 8-bit Ataris he even has an Inet feed.
Really? What BBS is that? Our club is running an ST BBS, but we're
looking at switching to either a DOS- or Linux-based system so as to
(someday) get an internet mail connection.
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Received on Tue Aug 25 1998 - 20:58:31 BST