15 Feb
2006
15 Feb
'06
8:18 a.m.
There was once a website called "The Totally Unofficial ATW800 Page"
that was maintained by Chris Gray. Unforunately, it died like the
dinosaur years ago when the host provider decided accidently to end his
web account. I archived it locally on my website with the Chris'
permission (thank god for the wayback machine). It is basically
verbatim from the original site. You can find it here:
http://www.classiccmp.org/transputer/rtu_atw800.htm
http://www.classiccmp.org/transputer/gs_atw800.htm
If you go the ATW800 specs, there are a lot of links to other users who
have the ATW800:
http://www.classiccmp.org/transputer/atw800.htm
These guys are more than happy to help fellow ATW800 users (especially
Jean-Marie). Also, there are much more documentation on ATW800 on the
previous link that is not contained in the Helios link...
I wish I could help you further, but I don't have one :-(
Cheers,
Ram
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Subject: RE: Anyone with an ATW800 (Transputer workstation)?
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Curt has one. The software is on my website at
http://www.classiccmp.org/transputer....
Thanks (Already found your website :-)
Actually, I received software with the unit, and it appears
to have an installation already on the hard drive.
I first powered the unit with the hard drive disconnected.
This got me to the GEM desktop of the integrated Mega-ST.
Booting the ATW800 Boot Disk resulted in an expected message
that there is no SCSI drive.
Connecting the SCSI drive, the unit did not appear to boot
on it's own, however booting the ATW800 boot disk results
in access to the hard drive, followed by startup message
for the Helios server, and ends with the message
"Booted..."
After that, no more data comes from the Atari monitor
connected to the Mega. However entering "trash" on
the keyboard and pressing ENTER results in hard drive
activity, so I assume the system is actually running,
and outputting to the Blossum video display (?)
I currently do not have an RGB monitor suitable for
connection to the Blossum card - is there any way to
direct the Helios console to the Atari Monitor.
I have the Helios documents from your site (many thanks),
but I have not found information specific to the ATW800,
and how to get it up and running ...any pointers you can
give me would be most helpful.
Regards,
Dave
BTW: I have already posted IMD images of the disks that I
received with it to my site. This includes the ATW800 boot
disk, Helios dsiks, Something called "Mira shading", several
disks marked "Xdemos", and several more marked "Public Domain".
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