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Re: ATARI NETWORK, PRINTER DRIVERS

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From: Neil Harris
Date: Mon, 19 May 1986 18:43
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In article <8605162336.AA23370@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>,
GEORGE_FRAJKOR@CARLETON.BITNET (GEORGE FRAJKOR) writes:
> 
>  DOES anybody know if someone is developing a networking or shared-
> peripheral system for the STs? Seems to me they'd make darn good
> classroom use computers (better and jsut as cheap as Apple, probably) if
> Atari would take the education market seriously. Anything that would
> enable 16 or so STs to share a common printer and hard disk or tap
> into a mainframe would sure help.

Computer Curriculum Corp. in Palo Alto has a gizmo to tie a roomful of ST's
together around a central host.  I don't know the details, but I have seen
it in use and it does work.  They have some nice CAI programs that use the
ST as a terminal, too.

--->Neil @ Atari
	...lll-crg!vecpyr!atari!neil
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Subject: Re: ATARI NETWORK, PRINTER DRIVERS
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Date: Mon, 19-May-86 14:43:54 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 19 14:43:54 1986
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