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- From: leo@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Leo Hendry)
- Subject: Re: Falcon specs and price wanted
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.220044.28837@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
- References: <1992Nov22.235236.1@fnalc.fnal.gov> <1992Nov23.073843.26299@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:00:44 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov23.073843.26299@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> hyc@hanauma.jpl.nasa.gov (Howard Chu) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov22.235236.1@fnalc.fnal.gov> traynor@fnalc.fnal.gov writes:
- >>Hello--
- >>
- >>Can someone send me some tech specs and works in progress regarding the Falcon?
- >
- >George Robbins (from Commodore, how 'bout that. Nice guy, really.) just posted
- >the specs in comp.sys.atari.st.tech. List price for a 1MB machine with no
- >internal hard drive is supposed to be around $799.
- >
- >>I'm kinda curious...also I heard that there will be a 68040 version--is that
- >>true? Will there be some sort of connection that will alllow people to use
- >>their Falcons as videophones (I read that somewhere). Finally, can someone
- >>send me the retail and street price of typical Falcon setups? I would appreciate
- >>it.
- >
- >I've heard a fair amount about a 68040 version, but it's not going to be
- >available any time soon. I wouldn't expect to see it in the next 3 months,
- >anyway.
- >
- >Hm, videophone, interesting idea, but not something we can do over the current
- >phone network, is it? I've seen some AT&T blurbs about videophone technology,
- >using some new compression scheme and only sending something like 10 frames per
- >second, very low rez. Maybe that's over the existing phone network, but I
- >think it's targeted at a digital optical network... I guess it's a cool idea
- >but I don't think its time has come yet. (Besides, I'm more often thankful that
- >the other end *can't* see me than I'm wishful about seeing the other end. Must
- >be all those callers waking me out of a sound sleep... }-)
-
- BT have a Videophone on the market (for about 500 pounds I think). You are
- correct in saying that it uses advanced compression and the frame rate looked
- like about 5 per second when they showed it on the News at 10. Apparently
- they are selling it abroad. I think GPT manufacture it.
-
- - Leo
-
- >--
- > -- Howard Chu @ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
- >
- >All true wisdom is conveyed in one-line witticisms.
-