Author: Shalroth (webcacheb08a.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: 10-02-2001 23:42
I notice nobody suggested he use a 130XE...:P
Of all my Ataris, the Falcon was the one I was themost excited about getting. It was the one I drooled long over in the pages of ST format magazine, and though I love my TT and Mega (and STFM, STE, Pofo...) I'm proudest to own a falcon. (well, that and my Hawk Vertical Computer prototype)
My band uses it all the time, our other recording machine is my Pentium III-1400MHz machine with 512MB of RAM, and 40GB hard disc...we *ONLY* ever use it when I forget to bring the Falcon, or I'm playing games on it (Erm, encoding MPEGs! Honest!!)
And there's the famous story of how my friend sold his top-of-the-range PC to buy a falcon after playing with mine.
I paid £210 for a basic 4MByte falcon with a 520MB Internal disc, and I got an external 540MB disc from a mac dealer (for a fiver...I thought it was just the enclosure and I was prepared to pay a tenner for that! That's another story though). That seems to be the average price - around £200/DM400 will get you a nice falcon (OK, mine was a little basic but it was mint condition, in original box with original polys and internal bags).
Yeah dude, get a falcon. Or a 130XE.
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