grahamt@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Graham Thomas) (02/17/90)
From article <2042@atari.UUCP>, by apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt): > No, the STe can not drive a Moniterm or similar monitor directly. The > video signal for that kind of monitor is totally different from the > normal ST/STe video, and requires extra hardware. There is an add-in > board available for the Mega which has this hardware. Since the STe is > in a 1040 case, without the room or stakes for this kind of board, > it's not available for STe. We do have plans for a future STe with > enough expansion capability to make this possible, but the details > are not public yet (and I don't know them). > ..but you may just have exposed yourself to a whole lot of 'if you're going to do it, I want it NOW!!' messages. Sounds like a sensible thing to do, though. It'll require a new case for the STe, won't it? I wonder what implies for the Mega range? > >>Can someone from Atari also post the specs on the SIMMs the STE and STACY >>are supposed to use? > > I don't know them. The SIMMs are there mainly for the cost and space > savings on the PC board, not so you can add memory to your machine. > > In some machines the memory is not even socketed: it's SIPs, not SIMMs. > If the cost of SIPs is lower than SIMMs plus sockets at the time we > buy, we use SIPs. > Oh dear. Anything to save a buck. Just when we were thinking how nice it is, having a machine which is certain to be easily upgradeable. I thought Atari might have learned its lesson from the time when it made Mega 2's which couldn't be upgraded to 4 meg. It really is a short-sighted attitude. (None of this implies any personal criticism, Allan. I doubt whether you're responsible for this.) [Apropos of nothing, as I have a few more lines to insert to defeat the '50% new stuff' rule, I see that the Atari Transputer Workstation is now being openly advertised as 'available now' in the magazine Parallelogram. For 4995 pounds, you get a T800 processor, 4mb RAM, graphics processor, 1mb video RAM, 1280x960 colour graphics, X-Windows, Helios O/S, and either a C or a Fortran compiler. Contact Perihelion on +44 223 356555 for more details. Oh, and 'Available soon: Ethernet Link Adaptor'. The same issue (Feb 90) has an article which hints at a financial cock-up at Perihelion. It looks like Atari UK are now going to make the ATW themselves, with the assistance of 5 ex-Perihelion employees, while Perihelion Hardware Ltd. (new name, formerly just Perihelion Ltd.) will distribute it, and make & distribute peripherals for it. Atari expects to expand its ATW staff to 14 by mid-year (whenever that is - calendar, financial?) I was interested to see the report on how the Kodak ATW-based image manipulator is now on public view in Toronto. I saw it at the UK Personal Computer Show last September, and was very impressed. What a great tool for blackmailers it would make! Get a photo of someone in a compromising position, then stick on someone else's head! There, that should be enough. Sorry to ramble on.] Graham -- Graham Thomas, SPRU, Mantell Building, U of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9RF, UK JANET: grahamt@uk.ac.sussex.syma EARN/BITNET: grahamt@syma.sussex.ac.uk ARPA: grahamt%syma.sussex.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk UUCP: grahamt@syma.uucp Phone: +44 273 686758
roland@cochise.pcs.com (Roland Rambau) (02/26/90)
->From article <2042@atari.UUCP>, by apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt):
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->> I don't know them. The SIMMs are there mainly for the cost and space
->> savings on the PC board, not so you can add memory to your machine.
->>
->> In some machines the memory is not even socketed: it's SIPs, not SIMMs.
->> If the cost of SIPs is lower than SIMMs plus sockets at the time we
->> buy, we use SIPs.
Allan, you may not know this, but in Germany the STE is definitely
advertized as "_expandable via SIMMs to up to 4 MB_" ( I have this in print ).
Atari will probably have to refund any STE which does not stand to this
promise ...
Roland Rambau
rra@cochise.pcs.com, {unido|pyramid}!pcsbst!rra, 2:507/414.2.fidonet