On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, John Rollins wrote:
Picked this thing up at Wacky Willy's in Portland,
OR for $5 with a floppy
drive(actually two 5.25" drives in a case with a PS). Not quite sure what
to think of it. It says ATR8000 SWP Microcomputer Products on the front,
lighted power switch on front, and on the back we have two 13-pin Molex
connectors marked Peripheral Out and Computer In, and three edge-connectors
marked RS-232, Printer and Floppy Drive. Inside it says Software
Publisher's ATR8000, and has a Z80 CPU, a WDC floppy IC and a VERY small
amount of RAM... They assumed it was an Atari of some sort, as they
recently got an 800 and 800XL. Does anyone have any idea what the ATR 8000
is?
Its an Atari CP/M add-on module. Its actually a stand-alone CP/M box.
You can add a terminal and disk drives to it to make it complete. It was
sold mainly to the Atari market. With it came a terminal program
carthridge for the Atari. The Atari then became a dumb terminal to the
CP/M machine. You can hook Atari drives to it, and it came with an Atari
CP/M system disk. If you didn't get one, I can make you a copy of mine,
plus the manual, but I won't get to it for several weeks (standard
disclaimer).
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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