Wolfgang Kierdorf of "Retro is the new black" youtube channel is reviewing a rare kind of Falcon 030, which was donated to his channel: The combination of a Rocke Tower and the rare Falcon Speed PC card by German company SACK "capable" of running Windows 3.1.
Just in case you hear an incredibly unsympathetic AI voice as video narrator please switch to the original language on youtube (lovely English with German accent)
Both hardware items are hard to find these days. They were like the highend stage of expansion for the machine in the German Atari market, maybe until the Centurbo Cards appeared. The Rocke Tower had a very high standing in the community because of its smart design and quality. And the Falcon speed was one of the most advanced PC cards on Atari.
Ironically, the once strong wish in the Atari user base for catching up with the oh so wonderful PC world by using tower cases, external keyboards (and PC applications) turned around again mostly. At least to my impression retro computing people seem to prefer the classic cases again and are not particularly fond of using Windows 3.11 either. Finally, justice!
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