De Re Atari was the definitive Atari reference manual
with schematics and
everything. Most everyone who ever owned an Atari 800 knew about it. It
was readily available. Again, maybe the UK dealers were conspiring
against you.
Did it have hardware information? My copy of 'De Re Atari'
is all from the programming perspective and didn't include any
schematics or other hardware info unless it applied to programming,
such as the memory maps and such. Still an excellent source of
information though.
Jeff
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