Author: jeff (oh-lyndhurst2a-114.clvhoh.adelphia.net)
Date: 10-13-2001 17:39
Well I guess you're right. The ST and Falcon should have had, at minimum, 4 expansion slots and full SCSI-3 support. And the price tag would have been US$3500 for a system!
Atari was designing inexpensive computers. You have to cut costs somewhere, Atari chose expandability so that computing power would not be sacrificed. If you don't like the computers, buy a PC.
And the hard disk interface was not the best idea, but on the other hand, it was the only inexpensive PC that came standard with any sort of hard disk interface when it was first released. Atari probably did some smart marketing with the ASCI port. Think about it! You had to purchase your hard disk from Atari! You couldn't walk down the street and buy a ASCI-standard hard disk. So in that perspective, they controlled the storage peripheral market. WEll, at least until everyone else figured out how easy it was to build an interface :-).
Flash wrote:
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> "Why does everyone hate the Tramiels?"
Pretty obvious, eh? -Seen a Falcon at inside?
Thatīs a pretty good reason, donīt you think?
Or, the lack of a real harddisk interface in
all STīs. What the heck IS "ACSI", anyway??
I could mention a bunch of other reasons too,
but I guess you already know of most of them? ;)
OK, he might have saved the company temporarily,
but he made bunches of mistakes when he designed
the new systems, unfortunately. -Am I wrong?
I agree with Shalroth, someone should have
teached Tramiel some engineering design principles...
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