Had a huge success at a local thrift store this saturday, much of it is components < 10 years old. But I did find a Power Supply for an Atari Computer (Ihave aquired an 800, 1200xk and 1050 all sans Power Supplies). Soooo.. today I hooked the buggers in one by one: The 800, powered up like a champ! Got the Atari FAQs up and determined I have an 800 with a GITA and the BASIC cartridge is Revision A. The 1200XL is a different matter, Powered up, got the logo, went to diagnostics, sound O.K., Memory looks good, but keyboard... I can get the top row (reset,start,select,option, & help) working but the other keys seem dead. The strange thing is I gboot up BASIC and I press a letter and the computer responds with it's 'click' sound but no key (maybe something in the decoding logic???) Any Atarians got a clue? Since I only have the one power supply I had to power up the 1050 as a standalone the head did a quick back-fourth motion and the activity light stopped so that seems to be a promising sign. Second request: When I get a second supply I gonna kinda need a disk to run on this thing, can anyone help set me up with some essential disks (DOS, utilities, maybe some common games, etc.) I can trade for some fine Commodore Programs and such. (=)) One yard sale find was a batch of Radio Electronics Magazines, dated back in the 80s... Will have to scan through those closely. At first I thought I'd just weed out the ones I wanted and pass on the rest, but I've made that mistake once before.... They will go into storage. Yet another yard sale purchase was a 64 system (I dare not count how many I have), so far so good, the C64 and power supply are fully functional and the keyboard is amazingly clean (i.e. all the keys work, even though It looks like someone tracked mud on the computer). I still have to test the monitor and 1541, but I feel confident they will function. -- Good haul! I would've paid that much for that Creative Computing book. BASIC, pretty much so, except if there are POKEs and SYS commands in it it may need some converting, some BASIC may not be easy or possible mainly if there is sprite or sound usage as those chips are VERY different then on the 64. There are some good FTP sites for the Plus/4, just make sure when you download games and demos they are NTSC and not PAL, (PAL graphics are unviewable on an NTSC Plus/4), there are game conversions available (Jim Hehl is probably the most noted for converting programs 64 and Plus/4 european to the American Plus/4 platform). This reminds me I really need to get the adapter pinouts of the Joysticks and the Cassette port on my web page. (whisper.. "if you write it they will browse...") Not me, though you can tell Commodore was toying with the idea (on the Plus/4, C-16, MPS-803, DPS-1101, and the 1531 datasette for the Plus/4/16) It could have been the rare Commodore 1551 disk drive. Commodore's attempt at a fast parallel drive. It was to hook into the parallel port of the Plus/4 and delivered a great speed improvement over the 1541 (not too hard of a feat.) I hear it was released in Europe but not in the states. I think they stopped with volume 3, I remember they closed out a bunch of their inventory to schools (which included vols 1-3) at about $100 or so, that was sometime in 1982. Gosh I wish I had all that stuff today: posters, computer music record, books, etc. ------------ The 1541 is VERY compatible with the Plus/4 and Commodore 16 (thank goodness!) You can adapt a datasette to use on the Plus/4 but Commodore decided to change the pitches at which the data is recorded thus making it impossible to interchange data via tape between other Commodore 8-bits. The format and timing are the same from what I understand. Larry Anderson -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Visit our web page at: http://www.goldrush.com/~foxnhare Call our BBS (Silicon Realms BBS 300-2400 baud) at: (209) 754-1363 -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-