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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!pcsbst!dude!me
- From: me@dude.pcs.com (Michael Elbel)
- Subject: Re: You Could Win Big Money...
- Organization: PCS Computer Systeme GmbH
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:40:15 GMT
- Message-ID: <me.724437615@dude>
- References: <9212102025.AA17950@floyd.cca.cr.rockwell.com> <1992Dec11.181837.7834@newshost.lanl.gov> <1gdtmjINN1e7c@rs1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE> <1992Dec14.175930.18053@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
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- In <1992Dec14.175930.18053@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> leo@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Leo Hendry) writes:
- >The 520ST+ was not an offical machine - A few companies sold them in 1987 when
-
- Uh, back in '86, when I bought my ST there was no such thing as a 1040.
- You could get a 520ST+ or a 260ST. Both were the types with external
- power supply and external disk drive. Originally there had been 520STs
- with 500 K of memory, but since these machines didn't have TOS in ROM,
- that was hardly enough. So Atari (at least Atari Germany) soldered
- another 500K on top of the existing ram chips and called it 520ST+.
-
- Then, for some reason they decided to actually sell a machine with
- 500K so that was called 260ST. The vendor I bought my machine from
- did the upgrade to 1Meg himself but wasn't allowed to call it a
- 260ST+ (thus the tape on the upper right side of the 260 on the
- box I still have).
-
- I had to shell out 2000 DM ($1250) for the ST and a homemade 3 1/2
- and 5 1/4 inc disk drive (those were EXPENSIVE to buy from Atari).
- Remember the time when you couldn't buy the floppy plugs and had
- to rig them yourself? But because of this I still can switch drive
- A between the 3 1/2 and 5 1/4 inc drives and read and write 360k
- IBM disks.
-
- .NOSTALGIA OFF
-
- > 520ST - first machine (no internal disk drive or modulator - I can't remember
- >whether the power supply was internal.). TOS was booted from disk.
- ^^^^^^^^
- external.
-
- Michael
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