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My father has recently acquired an Atari 600XL as a premium. It has
16K RAM and is apparently a discontinued model, and none of the usual
Atari dealers or toy stores seem to want to have anything to do with
it.  The local Atari users group had a good set of software on disk,
but were unable to supply info about mundane items like the memory
upgrade to 64K, how much memory you need to run the disk, etc.
It seems that all the Atari people are 520ST-crazy, and have forgotten
about the older machines that are still being distributed.

Apparently very few 600XLs were made, but there are a lot of 400s and
800s and 1200XLs and 130XEs around. I am unsure about the relation
ship among these machines and the 600XL. Are they software/DOS
compatible? What about game or program cartridges?

Any information about the 600XL would be appreciated, especially a
pointer to a source (store, mail order, or club) for the memory upgrade 
and game/program cartridges.

Thanks in advance,

Michael C. Berch
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