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Offline Franko

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Re: Cost of Atari Falcon when it came out?
« on: December 26, 2010, 09:49:07 PM »
Definetaly recall seeing it at £599 in Dixons many many moons ago... :)

Pretty sure I came across a TV ad for it recently in my search for old Commodore ads, need to try and find it again... :)
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Re: Cost of Atari Falcon when it came out?
« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2010, 12:11:03 AM »
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Wasn't there two models of Falcon?


Not sure, I knew it only lasted a short time but didn't realise it was only one year until I read this... :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Falcon
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Re: Cost of Atari Falcon when it came out?
« Reply #2 on: December 27, 2010, 12:34:08 AM »
Wow... that screenshot of the Falcons desktop makes 1.2 & 1.3 look modern in comparison... :)
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Re: Cost of Atari Falcon when it came out?
« Reply #3 on: December 27, 2010, 12:41:47 AM »
I've heard over the years a lot of folk say that, seems It was quite popular amongst many professional musicians, although I can't say personally I've ever heard anything that was produced on it... :)
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Re: Cost of Atari Falcon when it came out?
« Reply #4 on: December 27, 2010, 01:05:29 AM »
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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.


I only ever knew one person who claimed to own an Atari, though we never got to see it he was always hanging around with us Amigans, strange kid he was... :)

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:

(Still got me old Pro-Midi interface (£25) and still use it with an old Yamaha keyboard & Bars & Pipes on the odd occasion...:))
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Re: Cost of Atari Falcon when it came out?
« Reply #5 on: December 27, 2010, 01:24:01 AM »
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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!


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:
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