dimitrov@csd2.UUCP (Isaac Dimitrovsky) (12/31/85)
[] A few questions about the ST from a prospective customer: What's the deal with the disk drives? I understand that with the default $700 monochrome package (monitor, cpu, keyboard, and disk drive) the drive is a single sided 360K one. Are there also double sided drives available? If so, can you get a double sided drive instead? Is a development system (full documentation + a C compiler) easily available? How much does it run? How much would a 1200 baud modem + a smart terminal emulator (if any exists) run? Any recommendations for particular brands? What's the last word on hard disk availability? Hope to hear from all you ST owners out there. If the replies are interesting enough, I'll summarize to the net. Isaac Dimitrovsky allegra!cmcl2!csd2!dimitrov (l in cmcl2 is letter l not number 1) 251 Mercer Street, New York NY 10012 (212) 674-8652 You know the great thing about tv? If something important happens anywhere at all in the world, no matter what time of the day or night, you can always change the channel - Jim Ignatowski
ugjohna@BUFFALO.CSNET (John Arrasjid) (01/01/86)
Double sided drives: 720k for $289
Development system: $300 includes 3000 pages of documentation,
CPM68k, C compiler, Assembler, Linker, etc.
Modems: Hayes ($350), Mercury ($250), Qubie ($250), etc. (any RS232 modem)
Terminal programs: ST-Talk (vt52 $16)
Chat (vt52 $15)
PC/Intercom (vt100, kermit, xmodem $109)
John Arrasjid SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science
UUCP: [decvax,dual,rocksanne,watmath,rocksvax]!sunybcs!ugjohna
CSnet: ugjohna@buffalo
ARPAnet: ugjohna%buffalo@CSNET-RELAY
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