Atari prob, etc. - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

29 Apr 1997

At 04:01 PM 4/29/97 -0400, Roger Merchberger wrote:
...
 Nope. Sorry about this, but I used to work for RS and I
have an Atari
800... (sorry... no spare power supplies) and I can honestly say that I
doubt you will find any power supply from there that puts out AC. The only
machine that I can remember (and I remember most) from RS that took an AC
wart was the Tandy MC-10 (micro color computer), which took 8VAC at 1A
IIRC. You can't even get this PS from RS anymore, and it was for their own
computer!

Sadly, if it ain't DC, RS won't have one...

One thing I would be willing to do (when I have time, which won't be for at
least a month) is to open one of my PS's for an exact schematic & parts
list to build your own. I do know all the parts to build an AC PS are
available at the Shack... not sure of cost, of course.

Lemme know if you want me to do this, and remind me in a couple of months
that I volunteered to perform said surgery.

That's a shocker for me.  I think I need to learn a little more about
electronics, and if you tear yours apart, I would love to have a copy of the
schematics.  It might be a good learners project for me, and useful as well.

...
 On this note... I do know that there is a *lot* of
software on the Web for
8-bits, but does anyone know where I can find a utility to read/write SSSD
Atari disks on my IBM? I do know that the extended density stuff is just
not possible on PeeCee's, but SD should be possible. 
At http://www.emulators.com the now have the schematics for their xformer
cable on the web site, which should work with their xformer software, there
is also a product called ape which is at http://www.nacs.net/~classics which
allows you to connect your atari to a pc.  They also have schematics and a
program to run an atari disk with a pc, to copy and create disks.  I have
read a lot of flap about incompatibilities writing disks back and forth
between the two types of drives.  Of course, you could get a black box or an
atr8000 and I think that would allow you to use a pc floppy with your atari.
I have actually never tried any of these, I just use a null modem cable and
transfer the software back and forth.
Isaac Davis                
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