Alldata System 3 (!!)

Hi! While looking at the bottom with bottom cover removed, of the Alldata System 3, It's 1989 classic machine as you will see. I became very suspcious feeling it's vaguely famillar looking looking at that motherboard. Unscrew the "Alldata" add on board to reveal partly hidden to see whole board and... It's Atari ST series! Whaaat? What it has: old style 68000 DIP IC, soldered 32 x 256K x 1bit DRAM DIPs (1MB), internal 34pin FD, ASCI "internal" where a external port used to be hooking to the "Alldata addon board that sports extra roms for fonts, scsi, bit of circuitry for Keyboard and mouse and also for the Alldata's internal thermal printer. The original Atari motherboard retains game cartidge, monitor port oddball 10 pin type that is external hooks to a relabeled "Alldata" standard atari mono monitor, standard atari mouse and parallel and one more port. I have the Atari's motherboard ID number to help determine exact type of this one: C070523-001 Rev D1 Thanks! Repaired it and found out that any oldstyle MS white dovebar mouse ball fits nicely if you have a atari mouse with lost mouse ball. Turned out wrong boot disk was used rendering the cdrom reader useless. Whew. The old Toshiba 1X caddy cdrom drive in it is complex animal, lots of work to take apart and assembling. That drive tricked anyone who is not used to "hold that eject button until caddy ejects". Including me! Hehehehe! I have another newer Alldata machine PSU repair in progress. It's built out of stock peecee parts based on pentium 75 only difference is a special ISA card that drive the built in thermal printer. Uses SCSI cdrom and standard adaptec 1610/1615 adapter. Running win95sux. I got the machine back to owner using peecee PSU and had told owner to use standard parallel printer while fixing the alldata PSU, all thermal printers in them is 24VDC juice. Alldata is still around but no longer doing hardware, just software side with automotive database. alldata.com Wizard