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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: re W Magro's posting
- Message-ID: <Z9u5wB7w165w@status.gen.nz>
- From: jonc@status.gen.nz (Jon Clarke)
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 11:32:34 GMT
- References: <H.ea.0n1SiCdAPzU@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca>
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- cherborth@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (Chris Herborth) writes:
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- > You weren't paying much attention to Atari's last two "new" computers,
- > were you? MegaSTe and Falcon030 are _barely_ classifiable as expandible
- > and upgradable. There is a serious lack of modularity in Atari's
- > designs, and they don't seem to keen on fixing that shortcoming. After
- > all, they've been listening to us complain about it for _at_least_ seven
- > years now.
- >
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- Well Atari may not have expanded their machines but the 3rd Party
- developers have.
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- Chris just stop and think of ...
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- - Spectre
- - Sound cards
- - Happy (the orginal)
- - All the accelerator cards
- - Video cards
- - Hard disks
- - CD cards
- - Rom cards/drives
- - and the list goes on and on and on and on
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- Hmm this resembles the same sort of upgrades you get for the PC to me
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