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                                Falcon030


The newest member of the Atari line, the Falcon030 is to become the new base
model Atari system. The Falcon030 is currently shipping with TOS 4.04. While
remaining backwardly-compatible, the Falcon030 adds many new features as
follows:

   ° Integrated case and keyboard design

   ° Motorola 68030 processor running at 16MHz with cache

   ° Motorola 56001 DSP with 96k RAM

   ° Standard configurations with 1, 4, or 14Mb RAM

   ° Internal 2.5" IDE hard drive optional

   ° Video resolutions from 320x200 to 640x480 with a palette from 2 to 256

   ° Colors and 16-bit true color

   ° Adaptable to Atari monitors, standard VGA monitors, and composite video

   ° GENLOCK-ready design

   ° Two extra joystick ports with support for paddles and light pens

   ° Ports include parallel, serial, external floppy, SCSI2, LANLocal Area Network
, 2 x CX-40

   ° MIDI in/out, microphone, headphone, and ST compatible cartridge port

   ° Interior processor expansion port

   ° Sound system includes standard Yamaha FM chip, connection matrix, and
     8track, 16bit stereo record/playback