rdlanctot@instr.okanagan.bc.ca (Ryan Lanctot) (12/21/88)
HI, I'M RELATIVELY NEW TO THE ATARI GROUP AND I WAS WONDERING IF ANYONE COULD GIVE ME SOME ADVICE ON A MACHINE TO BUY (I.E. CONFIGURATION, SOFTWARE, ETC.) IN THE LOW END PRICE RANGE. ANY HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED.... THANKS.
Xorg@cup.portal.com (Peter Ted Szymonik) (12/22/88)
I would strongly recommend a 1040 color system as a starter (and a damn good starter at that!) It can be easily found for around $850 new and better used. It would include 1 meg of RAM and an internal DD drive and would take care of 95%+ of the software out there. If you decide thats too much then drop the color monitor and go for a mono - one of the best mono monitors out there. Thats should cut a good %140-200 from the price. I would not recommend a 520ST because it only has 1/2 meg and much of the up scale software needs more than that and upgrading to 1 meg or beyond is costly (but not too difficult) so you may as well get all the RAM you need right off the bat. If you have a little more to spend then by all means get a Mega 2 system - its Atari's new standard machine and a mono system can be easily found for as little as $1,299 complete! Pete