Cost of Atari Falcon when it came out?

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Also amazing how there's absolutely no word online whatsoever what the MSRP was, let alone cost of various configurations. It's almost as if the Falcon never existed or at least, wasn't sold. HA!

Power without the price indeed!  :lol:

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I'm certain the falcon was £599 on release in the UK.  I think £100 difference on the A1200 would not be enough to cover the 030, DSP, and hard disk.

I just read how, despite having a 16mhz 030 inside, the Falcon was still based on the ST's 16-bit architecture. Blech. Talk about a poorboy's 030 computer or better yet... The Atari Falcon: Choking a faux 32-bit chicken.  :lol:

What's truly amazing is what both Commodore and Atari tried to peddle, in their later years to the public. Reminds me of this great song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRiLYImveAE

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Extra Features of the Falcon: 68030 processor @ 16 Mhz, 65,000 colors @ 640x480, 1.44 meg floppy drive, 4 meg RAM (expandable to 14), internal 65 meg hard drive, DSP processor, SCSI-2 port, Price: $1,299.
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Wow, unbelievable. Atari was totally off their rocker back then. Anyone get the double-plus-good pun there? Think Amiga and 2600  :laughing:

Anywho, Franko... you're absolutely right. I recently tried resurrecting an ST for old shits sake and I could not believe how primitive and crippled the OS was. Completely out of order and damn near useless. It took a TOS ROM update before you could do something as simple as rename a folder. Not kidding.

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I used Atari 1040STs in school with Notator (I am a muso). It was the only way to do it back in the early 90s. That connected to Korg 01s/M1s, Yamaha SY77s. Ah, the memories. The Amigas at my school were used for animation/ray tracing exclusively at the time.

That's awesome your school had such diverse computers! But, Amiga could be just as MIDI "ready" with a $40 parallel port MIDI box. And there's plenty of music/MIDI capable software written for the Amiga as well.  

Funny how a few musicians gravitated toward the Atari line just because MIDI was built-in. BTW: I've known musicians that have used ST's before. Guess what? They could care less and knew nothing about the computer as a whole. It was nothing more than just a bridge or an appliance of sorts for them. Never used their computers for anything else.

Same is true with a friend that owns an embroidery/screen printing shop here in town. Used a MegaST for years before he went PeeCee. Only ever used his ST for the one "simple" process of laying out patterns to be scanned in and printed. Nothing else. Veird!

@Dentunes: yeah, I have an iPad. There's a few stupid aspects about it I don't like, but all things considered - it's pretty neat for what it is.

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So I never got to actually see one working as the odd one or two that were in the shops were always switched off for some reason... :lol:

Would you believe our local Amiga store in Wheeling, IL actually used an ST with b/w monochrome monitor as their Point Of Sale cash register? These were die-hard Amigans too. Guy that ran it also belonged to a user group nearby. Was soooooo funny purchasing Amiga goods and then seeing an ST behind the counter. DOH!