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- From: bgilbert@cs.washington.edu (Benjamin Gilbert)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: ATARI STE vs. ATARI MEGA STE
- Keywords: Which one?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.011835.2921@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 01:18:35 GMT
- References: <1992Jul22.122422@disuns2.epfl.ch> <23JUL199201250836@ral.arc.nasa.gov> <4162@wet.UUCP>
- Sender: bgilbert@cs.washington.edu (Ben Gilbert)
- Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
- Lines: 35
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- In article <4162@wet.UUCP> ekrimen@wet.UUCP (Ed Krimen) writes:
- >In article <23JUL199201250836@ral.arc.nasa.gov> semra@ral.arc.nasa.gov (Donald K. George) writes:
- >>I have a 520 STE w/ 4 meg. I'm informed that SST doesn't work on 520/1040
- >>STE's. First, of course, due to physical space restrictions. This can be
- >>overcome by putting it in a tower case (I haven't done this). Second, there
- >>is some other problem that prevents it from working. I don't think the Megas
- >>suffer this restriction. My own opinion is that if the price difference
- >>isn't large or important to you, go with the MEGA. It seems to be more
- >>versatile (VME and Graphics cards, etc., Internal SCSI?). There doesn't
- >>seem to be much of an upgrade path for the 520/1040 STE's.
- >
- >The SST won't fit in a Mega STE either. You need a Mega ST or, as you said,
- >a tower case. It's been mentioned a couple of times before from the designer
- >George Richardson, that there would a Mega STE version, but it would sacrifice
- >some of the features in the Mega ST version. And don't expect any time soon,
- >if at all. I think Dave Small has enough on his hands right now that he
- >doesn't need to worry about having George design another version.
- >
-
- Also remember that there is the Tiny Turbo 030 accelerator, which _does_ fit
- in a Mega STe or a Mega ST or an ST or an STe. It has loads of options
- and I'm sure would be a dazzling upgrade for those not wanting to buy a new
- system. I don't think you need a tower caser for any version of the
- Tiny Turbo, hence the name. I imagine a Mega STe with a Tiny Turbo 030
- installed would zip right along, so you have a machine that is a TT
- except for the nameplate... :-)
-
- >
- >--
- > ||| Ed Krimen
- > ||| ekrimen@wet.com or ekrimen@wet.UUCP or hoptoad!wet!ekrimen
- > / | \ E.KRIMEN (GEnie)
-
- Ben Gilbert
- bgilbert@cs.washington.edu
-