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Started by Jerry Zarycky
Thu, 05 Apr 1984 03:32
atari expansion news
Author: Jerry Zarycky
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 1984 03:32
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 1984 03:32
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I was wondering if anyone had any more news/rumors about the expansion
capabilities of the XL line. In this month's (April) COMPUTE!, Bill Wilkinson
writes in his Insight:ATARI column about a supposed April Fool's joke.
He writes about an intelligent peripheral interface (card cage)
which could support high-speed modems, parallel printer
interfaces, music synthesizers, parallel disk drives (which would run app.
10 times faster than the current serial ones), and even a winchester hard
disk drive. He claims that this system would be second in expansion
capability only to the Apple II systems. Has anyone heard anything about this
expansion interface? As a side note, if one bought one of the current serial
disk drives, is it possible to take advantage of the increased speed of the
parallel port, or is the "serialness" an inherent property of these disk
drives?
Replies to the net would probably be most beneficial.
Jerry Zarycky
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P.S.
Has anyone seen Robotron:2084, Pengo, or Donkey Kong Jr. for the
Atari home computers yet???
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