From: kemper@millelac.rhrk.uni-kl.de (Michael Kemper [Informatik])
Subject: Re: Atari Falcons $799!!!!!
Reply-To: kemper@millelac.rhrk.uni-kl.de (Michael Kemper [Informatik])
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern (Germany)
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 11:09:31 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.112401.18592@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>,
jyoung@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jeff Young) writes:
|>Many people said Atari Falcon specs add up to $2000 but LIST PRICE
|>will be $799 and start selling in 6 weeks!!  
|>
|>(Some people wondering about DSP and DSP port..Motorola 32 mhz
|>56001 DSP. Magazine review said DSP port is DB26 connector and
|>with S/PDIF digital interface format (good?) and 1 megabytes/second
|>serial).
|>
|>Message-ID: <BtELHF.MC2@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
|>Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
|> 
|> GEnie/Z*NET NEWS REPORT
|> Copyright 1992 by GEnie, ST RoundTables, and Z*Net News Service
|>
|>------------------------------------------
|> ATARI AT ATARI MESSE - THE NEW WAVE BEGINS
|> ------------------------------------------
|> 
|> Every year, Atari holds a huge trade show in Dusseldorf, Germany. 
|> Spanning roughly four football fields of floor space, the show this
|> year is similar in size and attendance to last year's event.
|> 
|> The announcement of the Falcon 030 to the largest Atari show in the
|> world was the first order of business.  According to Nathan Potechin,
|> "there are Falcons all over the floor of the show, in almost every
|> booth."  Clearly, the nearly-accurate profile of the coming machine
|> offered by most of the Atari media across the last months was not
|> missed by the showgoing Atari Messe audience, and the excitement in
|> the crowd was ecstatic as they experienced it firsthand.
|> 
|> Many vendors had new applications that expose the power and features
|> that are new on the Falcon 030.  DMC Publishing (Calamus) again had
|> the largest booth on the floor, spanning 4,000 square feet with about
|> 40 people working in it alone.  Other large booths included TMS,
|> Matrix, 3k, and Maxxon.  Many new products were shown, and we will
|> report on them in detail in a later release.
|> 
|> MARKETING PLANS, PRICE FOR FALCON IN USA
|> 
|> The hottest news at 5:00 PM Friday evening in Germany after the close
|> of the first day of Atari Messe was the unveiling not only of the
|> Falcon, but of the plans that Atari has to market the new machine in
|> the USA.
|> 
|> The "base" Falcon 030 will retail for $799 in the USA in a one-
|> megabyte configuration.  The next option up the scale will be a four-
|> megabyte RAM with 65 megabyte hard drive Falcon at $1,399.
|> 
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I don't think Atari will be able to SUPPORT such a machine in a way
Apple or IBM can do. Think of the ST or TT. How many TOS-Upgrades have
there been in the last five or six years? One, Two?

|\/|ichael |<emper              +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
University of Kaiserslautern    + Must I say this?                            +
Germany	                        + This is my own personal opinion...          +
kemper@rhrk.uni-kl.de           +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

                                                    
From: mjs@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Marc Sabatella)
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 17:25:10 GMT
Subject: Re: 7/8 (Re: Notation question for C-Lab's Notator 3.1)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA