My adolescent fantasies FINALLY fulfilled!

On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Arlen Michaels wrote: As Homer would say, "Mmmmm....Co-Power II...." (drool) This is an ATR8000 with a CO-POWER upgrade board. Like you said, it was an 8088 upgrade with 256k RAM and let you run MS-DOS and CP/M-86. In CP/M mode, you could use the extra memory as a RAMdisk. It wasn't just for the ATR8000; they also made them for Kaypro, Osborne, Xerox, Zorba, and Bigboard. Retail price circa 1985 for the CO-POWER-Plus board (is this the same as the original CO-POWER-88 upgrade?) was $495 for the 256k model, $575 for the 512k model, $655 for the 768k model, and $735 for the 1024k model. It came with some neat features, like programs to transfer files between CP/M and MS-DOS disks, MS-DOS screen drivers, and auto-recognition of the CP/M machine's printer/modem ports. As far as I know, the 8088 upgrade was the only upgrade commercially available for the ATR (I heard about some homebrew HD interface stuff). If anyone has any info on any other upgrades/hacks, I'd love to hear about them... For 1985, this thing was pretty damn cool. For under $1200 (the ATR800 itself was $399) you added a high-speed serial port and a 64k buffered parallel port to your Atari, gained the ability to use virtually any floppy drive (even 720k 3 1/2"), got a CP/M computer with 64k ram displayed in 80 columns on your Atari screen, and an IBM-PC with a whole meg of RAM! Plus, you can use it as a stand-alone computer by hooking up a terminal to the "Computer-In" SIO port, no Atari required! What an I saying...this thing is pretty damn cool in *1998*... I got a bunch of price-lists/product brochures with this one, and will scan it all and make it available in the next few days for anyone interested. BTW, does someone have the actual owner's manual for it? Funny enough, with all these books and papers, the only thing I am really missing is the honest-to-god owners manual. A scan or copy of one would be much appreciated. Aaron