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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: re W Magro's posting
- Message-ID: <Fci0wB5w165w@status.gen.nz>
- From: jonc@status.gen.nz (Jon Clarke)
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 23:41:50 GMT
- References: <H.ea.hdo0qVXWoTM@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca>
- Organization: The Z*NET Global News Gateway in Parnell New Zealand.
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- cherborth@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (Chris Herborth) writes:
-
- > In <Z9u5wB7w165w@status.gen.nz>, Jon Clarke writes:
- > > Well Atari may not have expanded their machines but the 3rd Party
- > > developers have.
- > ...
- > > - 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
- > >
- > > Hmm this resembles the same sort of upgrades you get for the PC to me
- >
- > How many of those can you plug in at once? How much choice do you have
- > if you need one of them? If you were using a PC or Mac, you've have
- > several to choose from... you could (gasp!) pick the best one for the
- > amount of money you want to spend. On the ST, you pick the only one,
- > and pay what they're asking for it.
-
- Well it goes both ways. To change cards on the PC you muST remove the
- case, there goes the warranty and insert the card. Now comes all the
- hassel like, will it work with OS2, is there a driver for it, will it
- work with my other cards etc etc .
-
- Just like the ST, except very few ST's applications are inside the case.
-
- Re best for your price. Hey Chris this applies to ALL machines and well
- you know it. A case in point. The async driver/card for the AS400 here
- costs $nzd1200 but hey a clone costs $nzd800. So do I get the best or
- a clone and there is only one made by Big Blue? Har far do we take this?
-
-
- Jon Clarke Z*NET Pacific
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