#Perspective
17-Feb-86 19:24:08
Sb: #8458-#Perspective
Fm: Dave Haynie/C128 Land 76703,2047
To: TOM BURNS 73017,2404
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Let's see-
ST $300
Extra floppy $200 (Almost as much floppy storage)
Synth $300
OS-9 $200 (?? Price is a guess, for multitasking)
Total $1000
Now you can do almost as much as an Amiga, although not in as many colors or as
fast graphically (in other words, you're hurtin' visually). Now if you can get
your hard drive for $300 (providing the Amiga isn't available discounted), you
might have yourself a decent system for the same price as an Amiga. In either
case you'd need a monitor, and you'd probably want RAM expansion. Now let's
add a numeric co-processor; whoops! will all my ST software be able to use it?
My Amiga software will. Now lets add a 68020 board, a Gen-Locker, a video
digitizer and an audio digitizer. Now we've got a system! Does the ST work
with a 68020?