So I was watching Microlive and the episode mentioned the UK launch of a new games console by Atari and this was the time of the 1040STF and 520STM (it was said to be £70 so is this the 7800 or 2600 Jr I dunno)
However they also quoted Sam Tramiel as saying they were also going to be launching a dedicated Word Processing machine to rival the cheap and nasty Amstrad PCW8256 setup. Now this is news to me for sure so was wondering was this simply another vapourware product they announced intended to judge market response OR did they actually do any work towards building such a machine.
And if they did do any work on such a machine was it a non-68000 based machine, a 68000 based machine not compatible with the ST or a stripped down ST+SM124 setup with Wordprocessor in ROM?
Would be interested if anyone has any idea about what this machine was about and if it even got designed fully on paper let alone prototyped.
The episode in question was early 1986 (whenever the first Atari UK show was held).
However they also quoted Sam Tramiel as saying they were also going to be launching a dedicated Word Processing machine to rival the cheap and nasty Amstrad PCW8256 setup. Now this is news to me for sure so was wondering was this simply another vapourware product they announced intended to judge market response OR did they actually do any work towards building such a machine.
And if they did do any work on such a machine was it a non-68000 based machine, a 68000 based machine not compatible with the ST or a stripped down ST+SM124 setup with Wordprocessor in ROM?
Would be interested if anyone has any idea about what this machine was about and if it even got designed fully on paper let alone prototyped.
The episode in question was early 1986 (whenever the first Atari UK show was held).