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- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!waikato.ac.nz!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!James.Hampton
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Buying a Falcon (was: Falcon Graphics)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.034440.13479@actrix.gen.nz>
- From: James.Hampton@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 03:44:40 GMT
- Sender: James.Hampton@actrix.gen.nz (James Hampton)
- References: <1992Sep4.151149.8953@newshost.lanl.gov> <1992Sep07.114324.123106@rrz.uni-koeln.de> <1992Sep7.153742.21904@zooid.guild.org>
- Organization: Actrix Networks
- Lines: 37
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- In article <1992Sep7.153742.21904@zooid.guild.org> Mark Kovarski <kovarski@zooid.guild.org> writes:
- >
- > How much is a 486/50 MHz (or 33MHz DX) with 120 Meg HD, OS/2 2.0, 8 MB RAM,
- > SVGA Monitor, Case, Keyboard etc.? I have some promotion flyers from
- > Austria but they are a bit out of date. I would really like to know the
- > prices they charge in germany or any other european country.
- >
-
- Include the price of a 32 MHz DSP with 16 bit stereo I/O, NTSC video,
- SCSI 2, MIDI, blah blah blah... I asked the same questions to another
- clown, so you know what people interested in an $800 Falcon 030 are
- looking for.
-
- > Will I buy one, NO. Definetely not. Why? I will be in the same
- > position as with the STE, MSTE, TT etc. Does it offer anything that I would
- > want? NO. Will Atari Corporation ever smarten-up? No, they never did and
- > will never do. The company is run by a bunch of clowns, that's the only
- > expression I would use (I guess slang should not be used).
-
- Am I glad you won't buy one? YES. Do you offer anything that we haven't
- heard before? YES. Bozo entertainment par excellance. You and that
- other clown make P. T. Barnum proud.
-
- > I have just purchased a system which costs the same as 5-6 Falcon computers.
- > It offers all I would ever want and much more. I know it will be supported
- > and supported well. Software is available everywhere and I can go and buy
- > anything for it everywhere.
- >
- > Mark K.
-
- Like the other clown is doing, take a week and report the cost of
- PC boards that provide the features of the Falcon 030. If the
- total of the boards plus a 386 is less than a Falcon 030, I'll
- buy it.
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