Tempest Falcon accelerator	December 5th, 2000
Here is a mail which arrived today from Oliver Heun, with a request for publishing here. Motorola only ships the MPC-chip used in Tempest in packages of a certain amount. Of course we need some for the prototypes, but there'll be quite some overhead of processors not being used - that we have to pay for though. To make sure, these processors will not be wasted, we'd like to take some preorders of people that are willing to buy Tempest when it's finished. We don't need payment in advance or something like this. We also don't need 100 or 500 preorders to continue. We would simply need 20 preorders so we know where the processors will be used when Tempest _IS_ finished. The benefits are obvious, those who preordered will be the first ones to ever get Tempest. Additionally, it should be stated that Tempest is not limited to be used in the Falcon. It can be used in _ANY_ kind of Atari (or compatible) computer with an adapter board, so even non-falcon-users can preorder. Tempest will sell at roughly 300 euro, but that also depends on some VATs, taxes and of course exchange rates. It would help us gather the needed preorders if you could put up some news on your site along with Sven's email-address, svenka@it.kth.se This is the address that preorders should be sent to.

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