Well, not actually birthday, but on this date exactly 30 years ago I picked up my brand new Falcon at a local Atari-dealer in Trondheim, Norway. I paid NOK10488 for a 4Mb Falcon with a 256Mb Conner IDE-drive, which would be around NOK20000/€1700 in today's money. Over the next couple of years I added some SCSI devices, 14Mb RAM, then an Afterburner and another 16Mb RAM followed by a Nova/Mach64 and later an Eclipse/ATI Rage. Quite a lot of money for a student, but worth every penny!
The current incarnation of my Falcon:
CT60@95MHz, SuperVidel 2560x1440/16 bit, Videl output to the monitor on the right.
My other Falcon is in the process of being rebuilt with my Afterburner and Nova, I was hoping to get it ready for the anniversary but that did not happen.
Happy birthday!
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Re: Happy birthday!
My memory might be wrong but that sounds considerably cheaper than a Falcon cost in Britain at the time.
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Re: Happy birthday!
Nice one Joska, your machine blossomed into a fine powerful Falcon!
My original Falcon is also coming up to 30 years too. I was very lucky as I swapped my 4Mb STE for a 1Mb no HD Falcon! I worked at Compo UK and the MD said he didn't mind if I did the swap if I could sell my STE for a specific price. I did and he gave me the Falcon
My original Falcon is also coming up to 30 years too. I was very lucky as I swapped my 4Mb STE for a 1Mb no HD Falcon! I worked at Compo UK and the MD said he didn't mind if I did the swap if I could sell my STE for a specific price. I did and he gave me the Falcon
Re: Happy birthday!
Happy birthday 
Congrats to this impressive, original looking setup and thanks for sharing this lovely background story, love this kind of episodes!
Congrats to this impressive, original looking setup and thanks for sharing this lovely background story, love this kind of episodes!
Re: Happy birthday!
30 years... time passes so quickly...
It is more than our Atari existed - 1972-1995
It is more than our Atari existed - 1972-1995
Lynx I / Mega ST 1 / 7800 / Portfolio / Lynx II / Jaguar / TT030 / Mega STe / 800 XL / 1040 STe / Falcon030 / 65 XE / 520 STm / SM124 / SC1435
DDD HDD / AT Speed C16 / TF536 / SDrive / PAK68/3 / Lynx Multi Card / LDW Super 2000 / XCA12 / SkunkBoard / CosmosEx / SatanDisk / UltraSatan / USB Floppy Drive Emulator / Eiffel / SIO2PC / Crazy Dots / PAM Net
Hatari / Steem SSE / Aranym / Saint
http://260ste.atari.org
DDD HDD / AT Speed C16 / TF536 / SDrive / PAK68/3 / Lynx Multi Card / LDW Super 2000 / XCA12 / SkunkBoard / CosmosEx / SatanDisk / UltraSatan / USB Floppy Drive Emulator / Eiffel / SIO2PC / Crazy Dots / PAM Net
Hatari / Steem SSE / Aranym / Saint
http://260ste.atari.org
Re: Happy birthday!
Nice Joska
It's very similar like my story, I bought my first Falcon in August 1994, I remember that at the Polish distributor took my 1040STFM with SM124 without HDD and I had to extra pay about 5 times value of this STFM to buy Falcon in 4MB 120MB HDD configuration.
Today my basic falcon is CT63 + CTPCI and three cards on PCI Radeon, realtek and USB
It's very similar like my story, I bought my first Falcon in August 1994, I remember that at the Polish distributor took my 1040STFM with SM124 without HDD and I had to extra pay about 5 times value of this STFM to buy Falcon in 4MB 120MB HDD configuration.
Today my basic falcon is CT63 + CTPCI and three cards on PCI Radeon, realtek and USB