peters@pulman.DEC (Don Peters, APO-1/F8, 289-1242) (12/05/85)
Latest News from Atari (Dec 4, 1985)
Being frustrated with some rumors regarding Atari products, I just
called Atari to get the "straight scoop". Heres what I found:
- The TOS ROMS for the ST are not out yet, but, if you have a
developer's kit, Atari will send you the latest EPROM version
of TOS at no charge if you send them 8 AMD 2256 EPROMS and a
self-addressed return envelope for them. To verify that you are
a developer, they will check your name against their list of
people who bought the developer's package.
- They are close to shipment on the 804 printers.
- The arcade game set (e.g., Missle Command) is not available yet,
but will be by Christmas. I think she said these were being
developed by a third party vendor.
- They are still working on that ST internals book, which is to be
a condensation of the doc. in the developer's kit.
- The 10 Mb hard disk will appear as a 20Mb disk on store shelves
in January.
- The CDROM will not appear in January - she didnt say (know) why, but
a rumor I heard was that the drive cost was still too expensive
from the manufacturers, and Atari was waiting for the cost to come
down.
- If you got the developers kit and DIDN'T send in the non-disclosure
agreement, Atari claims you won't get any updates. When I asked
what updates have come out so far, I was told that the only one
was an icon editor.
Both the person who answered the phone and the one answering these
questions seemed to be VERY rushed, so I didn't go on to other subject
areas, such as the availability of MIDI software, or exactly when the
TOS ROMs would be available.
/Don Peters, Digital, 617-689-1242/
...decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-pulman!peterstim@ISM780C.UUCP (Tim Smith) (12/07/85)
In article <1605@decwrl.UUCP> peters@pulman.DEC (Don Peters, APO-1/F8, 289-1242) writes: > > - The TOS ROMS for the ST are not out yet, but, if you have a > developer's kit, Atari will send you the latest EPROM version > of TOS at no charge if you send them 8 AMD 2256 EPROMS and a > self-addressed return envelope for them. To verify that you are How many EPROMs are in the ST? 8 seems excessive... -- Tim Smith sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim || ima!ism780!tim || ihnp4!cithep!tim ^ ^-- Not ISM780C, ignore the header!