Aaron Christopher Finney <A_Finney(a)wfi-inc.com>
wrote:
I finally got an ATR8000. Man, I dreamed of having one of these every
night, reading the SWP brochure until it literally fell apart. Every time
I went to buy one on ePay, someone would come along and push the price
*way* beyond what I wanted to pay. Anyway, I just got one for $60 (I know
many of you think that's still ridiculously high, but I've been waiting
~12 years for one of these things) that came with a giant stack of disks,
manuals, and cables. The usual CP/M stuff; Wordstar, Supercalc, etc.
Unfortunately, I'm at work and have to wait a few hours before I can try
it out.
Well, at least now I will stop harrassing everyone who posts to the list
about picking one of these things up for $5...
How about the ATR Co-Power II? The one I found recently has an 8088 and
256K RAM, so I presume it was intended let an Atari run MSDOS. It looks
like it dates from around 1984. Can you comment a bit more on the history
of these ATR second processor cards and do you happen to know how many
different types they eventually made?
Arlen Michaels amichael(a)nortel.ca