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Originally Posted by Bruce Abbott
And it was sold with 4MB RAM and a 65MB hard drive, not just 2MB and a floppy drive!
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It was also sold with 1MB RAM and no HDD (for £599), making it pretty much unusable.
And at the time the Falcon was selling in the configuration you mentioned, it cost £899
At the same time, a 2MB A1200 with no HDD was £299 (half the price of the base level Falcon) and with a 64MB HDD was £449. Half the price again compared to the configuration you quoted, and that extra £450 left over could buy a 40MHz 030 processor with 4MB FAST RAM and still leave enough change for something like a second FDD.
The Falcon also suffered from a lack of software. Though the specs were impressive, games accounted for much of the popularity of the Amiga and ST. The Falcon was far more incompatible with the ST catalogue of games compared to the A1200, which would run the majority of games written for earlier machines. There were a small number of games in development for the Falcon, but every publisher would want to see a decent install base of computers before investing big money. In return, that lack of available software meant that nobody would invest a load of cash on a new computer that may not have much software available for it.
It was doomed from the start, without some proper STe compatibility.
A shame, as it's the one computer from that era that I'd love to own.