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echo: classic_computer
to: Andy Ball
from: Dave Drum
date: 2014-07-31 06:37:00
subject: Classic Computers

-=> Andy Ball wrote to Damon A. Getsman <=-

 AB> Hello Damon,

 AB>    PH> ...my eldest son has got his hands on an Atari PC
 AB>      > recently...

 AB>   DAG> Ereh, was that ST/TT/Falcon or 8-bit Atari?

 AB>     It may have been an IBM-compatible PC.  I once helped a
 AB> friend upgrade his Atari PC by removing some 44256 DIP RAM
 AB> chips. He had added SIMMs but the PC couldn't recognise
 AB> them until the DIP RAM was removed.  I later used the chips
 AB> to upgrade my 520 STFM to 1M.

So you now have a 1040 - right? Bit of trivia that few care about any longer -
the ST series was designed at Commodore and Jack Tramiel brought it along when
he scarpered from there and landed at Atari. OTOH, the Amiga (a *much* better
computer IMO) was an Atari design to start with. Amazing.

... Amiga made it possible. Commodore made it dead! - Dave Haynie
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