Well, after 7 years of research and over a year of writing and editing
the book -
Atari Inc. Business is Fun is now available for immediate purchase.
https://www.createspace.com/3928085
800 Pages in total with nearly 300 pages of just memo's, court documents
as well as rare and never before seen photo's and sketches.
Told by the employees who worked there and cross checked by others as
well as with supporting document evidence, this is a true recounting of
Atari from its inception in the halls of AMPEX in 1969 by an engineer
and a visionary that turn their efforts in a $2 billion juggernaut that
then implodes into a $538 million death spiral by June 1984.
Lots of detailed side stories such as "Rick Rats Big Cheese Restaurants"
which would become the famous Chuck E Cheese franchise. How Atari had
its own "Xerox PARC" in the Sierra Foothills and one of their first
projects was a wireless version of arcade PONG to a much more detailed
recounting of Steve Jobs time while at Atari, with far better details
than what is told in Walter Isaacson's book, plus the true and accurate
recounting of the creation of Breakout with input from Steve Wozniak who
contributor to the chapter. Also the full story of the dealings and
double-dealings between Atari and Amiga from November 1983 through June
1984 before Jack Tramiel even steps into the picture, including never
before seen photo's, documents and court records.
If you're looking for a gift for yourself or someone you know, you can
order now for immediate shipment, or if your not in a rush and just want
something to kick back and enjoy during the winter, order for January
2013 delivery and receive a $5.00 discount when you purchase:
http://tinyurl.com/bs7kor8
Coming this time next year will be book #2 - Atari Corp. Business is War
which will detail Atari from June 1984 through 1998...
Curt
I payed 100$, and had to pick it up in Queens/Nassau. I'll take 50$ plus shipping, from 08758. It works, but
there is noticeable screen burn even when off. I have some disks, and
the 8" drive cabinet.
I've been working on getting my S36 maint drawing set uploaded, and realized
that I don't have very many manuals for the system. Does anyone have any that
they'd be willing to have scanned?
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On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 8:19 PM PST Chris Tofu wrote:
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>On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 6:33 PM PST Chuck Guzis wrote:
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>> What would be the difference, internally, between it and other horizontal models?
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>>Of what vintage? A modern HP12C has very little in common with a
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>I didn know that. I bought it at Wallyworld say 10 years ago.
Ill spill the beans. I had aspirations of turning it into something scientific. Rom swap or what have you. Naive I guess. Anyone want to make an offer? Barely used.
There are 5 HP 700/96 terminals with keyboards. The keyboards are complete.
1 of the terminals has significant screen burn in white mode, but not in
black mode.
4 terminals come up crisp and bright white, no screen burn, no scratched
glass.
Cases are very dirty right now, but I can clean them.
Make offer? Prefer to ship within the US; I don't know how well these will
do going overseas.
Cindy Croxton
Electronics Plus
1613 Water Street
Kerrville, TX 78028
(830)792-3400 phone (830)792-3404 fax
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I'm still digging. I found more 550 stuff. I think this is everything
that came with the 550. Here's a chance for you 550 owner's to get the
whole set at one shot!
Original DS-DOS box and invoice.
Original Sanyo Easywriter ver 1.3 disk
Original Sanyo disk box with 550 dos ver 2.11 and BASIC 1.25, two
original Sanyo disk for InfoStar (set B disk 2 and 3 of 4; disks 1 and 4
are below), original Sanyo disk for DOS 1.25 and BASIC ver 1.1
Original Sanyo disk box with all three original disk of set A, WordStar
and CalcStar and a backup copy of DS-DOS.
Two card board dummy disks used to protect the floppy drives duing shipment.
Joe
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>A few weeks ago we were talking about the Sanyo 550 series and someone
mentioned one of the alternates operating systems that supported 80 track
drives in the 550. I said that was DS-DOS by Michtron.
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> Today I found an old Sanyo disk package with four disks for the 550. One
of them is DS DOS 2.11, one is InfoStar, one is MailMerge/SpellStar and the
other is a disk of misc utilities. The first three are original disks. In
additon, the InfoStar, MailMerge/SpellStar are Sanyo labeled disks that
came with the 550. If anyone wants them, trade me something I can use and
they're all your's.
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> Joe
Purely out of curiosity, is anyone aware of the possible existence
of LVD/SE SCSI (e.g. HD68) over UTP (RJ45) extenders? I'm aware
that one normally goes for FC, or a SCSI<=>FC bridge, but those
tend to be rather pricey.
- MG
This was software me my parents used in the 1980s on
our family computer. Does anyone know how and where
to obtain this, for old time's sake?
Thanks in advance.
- MG
Does anyone have this, willing to sell or --- more ideally,
for me --- willing to trade a SGI IP59 quad-processor CPU/node-
board? (P/N: 030-1989-003)
I have several (non-SGI) systems of interest, Alphas (PWS 500au's
and DS10s), but also Sun SPARCs (e.g. Ultra 10) and also at least
one HP Integrity rx2620 "Montecito" (largely maxed out, with 24
Gbytes RAM) to trade. All of the above are max'ed out, in terms
of 'specs' & configurations, plus there are many (PCI, PCI-X,
AGP, etc.) options available. I also have an IP53 dual-processor
CPU/node-board, as a possible 'replacement' (in case an IP59 board
would have to be removed from a working system) and may even have
a quad-processor one (i.e. the one I currently have installed).
I'd also like to emphasize, to avoid confusion, that these are
things I have to offer. Not so much things I'd like (or deem
sensible) to trade 1:1. The reason I'm looking for this part,
as well as other parts, is because I'm trying to get as much
out of my system as possible, as I'm working on my portfolio
as a graphic designer.
Either way, please don't hesitate to contact me. I'm open to
ideas and offers. Thanks in advance.
- MG