Cost of Atari Falcon when it came out?

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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.

This is US price and listed at http://www.ataritimes.com/system.php?System=Atari-ST

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GEM wasn't necessarily a nice looking operating system. Atari really rocked for MIDI and music though.

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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.

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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.

Then again, without jailbreaking, you can't rename an application on the iPhone/iPad!

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It wasn't that Amigas couldn't do MIDI, Atari STs had MIDI ports built in and Notator software (the Killer Music App) is what made it the popular choice. The software on the Atari ends up being Cubase today. The music apps on the Amiga were more focussed on MODs rather than MIDI.

And yeah, the high school I went to rocked where it came to computers. 386s when they just came out, a room (yes a ROOM!) of Amigas and a couple Ataris in the music labs. I spent my lunch breaks playing games in the Amiga room though lol. They even upgraded to Amiga 3000s when they came out including a digitiser!

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Perhaps it was a crafty sales ploy, I mean if you saw an ST running on a B&W monitor you'd be sure to buy the Amiga Instead, or maybe the didn't want to reduce the Amiga to the status of a cash register...

It's either that or they were just plain weird... :lol:

I can see why. At work we always use the crappiest computers as tills, the good stuff to demo software on. The Atari was probably the crappiest at the time and it was relegated to POS duties hehehe