12 Jun
1997
12 Jun
'97
3:36 p.m.
Whoa! Talk about plug-n-play!
Jeff
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 14:09:34 -0700 (PDT)
Reply-to: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu
From: Sam Ismail <dastar(a)crl.com>
To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers"
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: REAL plug&play hardware
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Jeff Hellige wrote:
same general I/O ports as the Atari disk drives
and such. You turn on the
modem first, then the Atari 8bit, and the 8bit actually boots into a program
called 'Modemlink', which is stored in ROM on the modem. No disks, cartridges
or anything...just the computer and the modem! Modemlink is pretty basic, but
What a sweet paradigm.
Sam
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