icsu8209@ming.cs.montana.edu (Glassy) (08/21/90)
Atari-people, hello.
What are the main differences between:
atari 520st,
atari 520stfm,
atari 1040st,
atari 1040stfm,
atari ????ste,
and the atari mega?
i'm saving up for a computer, and am thinking of an atari.
i'm looking for basic information on the standard hardware configuration
of the machines listed above, stuff like:
standard amount of RAM installed, in Mbytes.
amount of extra RAM, above the standard amount, that can be installed,
in Mbytes;
standard clock speed of 68000 installed, in MHZ;
sizes & densities of floppy and hard disk drives available.
what i'd use it for: Programming, plain and simple. i don't play games,
i don't much care about razzle-dazzle windows and graphics and sound effects.
(though i'm glad other people do---keeps software developers employed! ;) )
with that use in mind, which of the above would you recommend? and why?
and what are ballpark prices for the pieces of a system (cpu, floppy/hard
drives, monitors, printers)...???
thanks dearly for any info y'all can pass on to me.
Lou Glassy
icsu8209@caesar.cs.montana.edu
p.s. pls email responses...i'm sure these answers to these sorts
of questions have already been posted many times to the net. i just
subscribed to comp.sys.atari.st this week...
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Lou Glassy (icsu8209@caesar.cs.montnaana.edu)