Centek	January 7th, 2000
There has been lots of talk about Centek the last time. That the Phenix computer has gone down, which apart from Milan 2 seemed like the last outpost if you wanted something new that ran Atari software. The reason for Phenix to dissapear seems to have been the software side. One of the key developers of "Dolmen" had left the team. As everything in Phenix was concentrated around this, the project fell apart like a punktured balloon. However after these news, lots of people started to suggest Centek that they should look at anohter operating system, which were already available and prooven to be stable and well developed, namely MiNT. And for once in a lifetime, it looks like the company listened to it's customers. As you can now read about the "Phenix 260T" workstation as "the first MiNT computer". The Phenix 260T is a scaled down - but still hotted version of the "old" Phenix. The specs are: CPU: 68060 / 83 MHz (one or two chips) LOCAL BUS: 83 MHz/32 bit. 266 mbyte/sec EXPANSIONS: One AGP slot, five PCI slots, two USB ports MEMORY: 2 DIMM holders, up to 1 gigabyte FLASH ROM: 512 kilobytes IDE ATA-4: UDMA-33 with PCI-MASTER. 132 mbyte/sec MISC: PS/2 ports for keyboard+mouse. Realtime clock with nvram. ATX 2.1 case. And now for the fun part, buying the damn thing. :-) Anyone who read the original Phenix price surely had their pizza in the wrong throat. However, this new cut-down Phenix is in real lowprice-land. Base system: ZIP 100 drive 32 megabyte memory AGP RAGE Pro graphics 6.4 gigabyte harddisk CD-Rom drive Keyboard/Mouse Minitower Price with one 060: 913 Euro ($900, SEK8000, DM1800) Price with two 060: 1142 Euro ($1100, SEK10000, DM570) Personally I think this is the best news from Centek in ages. Just hope the machine will be available in a short while. All infos above were collected either on IRC or from Centeks homepage. I don't take resonsibility for the accuracy, you should take it mostly as rumours, except those parts snipped right from Centeks website.

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