brazil@pawl.rpi.edu (Timothy E. Onders) (03/29/89)
Atari seems to have set a price for the ATW in the UK. The price quoted in the present issue of Computer Shopper UK is 2,500 L, which is about $4,270 in US dollars. This price includes the monitor, 40MBy hard drive, Helios, 4Mby of RAM, 1MBy of video RAM, and a modified Mega ST motherboard. It will be in a tower configuration. Developer's have had them for a few months now,and on in Canada already has a sophisticated color photograph editing system. The systems are Issue 4 already, and have many of the bugs worked out. A good description of the Helios OS is available in the April issue of Computer Shopper, and a full spec document is available from Distributed Software Ltd. of Bristol, England. (0454) 612777. Facts have been indirectly confirmed to the best of their ability under non-disclosure agreements by Atari Canada. Timothy Onders brazil@pawl.rpi.edu
julius@yugas.UUCP (Julius OKLAMCAK) (04/03/89)
In article <1053@rpi.edu>, brazil@pawl.rpi.edu (Timothy E. Onders) wrote: >Presently, they do not expect to provide an expansion for present ST owners. >The ATW will be in a tower configuration, with 40MBy HD, 4 MBy RAM, 1MBy >graphics RAM, Helios, etc... The price quoted by Computer Shopper should >have been in Pounds Sterling, rather than dollars. The actual price they >are presently tossing around is about $4000-$5000. Actual price yet to be >finalized. > > [some stuff deleted] The last price I heard Atari U.K. tossing about was 4000 pounds. We should have a better idea when developer units start shipping this month. I haven't seen the Computer Shopper article yet, so I won't comment on its accuracy (yet :-). For those following the ATW, I've been compiling and running short X-Windows programs this last week. Floating point is blazing fast. So far I am pleased with this interesting machine. And it certainly has quite a bit of potential. >All information has been reasonably varified by a highly placed souce in >Atari Canada. Gee, I wonder who that could be. :-) -- Julius Oklamcak All views are my own. Atari (Canada) Corp. "That is currently a docu- ...!uunet!nexus!yugas!julius mented program unfeature."