Ataris - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

25 Aug 1998

At 06:20 AM 8/25/98 +0000, you wrote:
...
   520ST does
indeed run GEM; it's about equivalent to a Mac Plus or so. 
 Not to start a flame-war or anything but I have a 4 meg Mac+ and there's no 
way it is the equivalent of an ST. The only thing they had in common was the  
Well, certainly, a 4mb Mac+ (with what current version of the opsys?) is
going to be faster etc. than a stock 520ST running TOS 1.0.  But, compare a
4MB ST with TOS 1.4 (or 1.6?) with "the various add-ons" and I think you'll
find they're pretty equivalent.  Vastly different footprints, however,
something that I find rather interesting. 

Mind you, a lot more software was developed for the Mac, at least partially
because Tramiel never bothered to advertise the ST (or for that matter,
stocked them in the US.)  

...
  I have friends that use it in live performance and it
is still used 
extensively in studios, especially in Europe, tho the Atari Falcon or one of 
it's clones are now preferred because of thier built-in DTD capabilities. 
Yep.  I got two Falcons just before my mom passed away; Shortly thereafter
I moved back home to take care of my dad and my studio is still mostly
disassembled.  *sigh*  Someday, however, I'll get it all set up again, and
finish off the album I was working on.  

...
   The 800XL is
an updated version of the venerable 800.  Has BASIC built-in
 and only one cartridge.  Nice machine.

 There's a local BBS that uses 8-bit Ataris he even has an Inet feed. 
Really?  What BBS is that?  Our club is running an ST BBS, but we're
looking at switching to either a DOS- or Linux-based system so as to
(someday) get an internet mail connection.

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