Smashing find! Well, sort of..

This isn't exactly a Univac rescue, but I still think it's kinda cool: For $25 today at a garage sale, I got an Atari 800 with some extra RAM (don't know for sure yet), 1050 disk drive (no disks :( ), Atari 850 Interface (this thing has 4 female serial ports on the back, one parallel port on the side, 2 i/o ports, power switch, light, and power connecter on the front (not exactly a nice place to have all your cables running off... oh well). From what I get from the small amount of documentation, the 850 is just a serial interface.. but there's no modem. I'd REALLY love to use it for that, or at least as a terminal on one of my UN*X boxen... any information would be greatly appreciated. Oh yeah, there were several carts and joysticks.. I made the mistake of letting my dad play with Packman.. we had an 2600 in the 80s... deja vous all over again... didn't see him again for an hour. Kevin -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After sifting through the overwritten remaining blocks of Luke's home directory, Luke and PDP-1 sped away from /u/lars, across the surface of the Winchester riding Luke's flying read/write head. PDP-1 had Luke stop at the edge of the cylinder overlooking /usr/spool/uucp. "Unix-to-Unix Copy Program;" said PDP-1. "You will never find a more wretched hive of bugs and flamers. We must be cautious." -- DECWARS ____________________________________________________________________ | Kevin Stewart | "I am a secret | | KC8BLL ----------| Wrapped in a mystery -Milford High School | | a2k(a)one.net | Wrapped in an enigma Drama Tech Dept. | |jlennon(a)nether.net| And drizzled in some tasty chocolate stuff.| --------------------------------------------------------------------