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  6. From: Michael Current <hunmanik@earthlink.net>
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  9. Subject: Welcome to comp.sys.atari.8bit!
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  19. Archive-name: atari-8-bit/welcome
  20. Posting-Frequency: 7 days
  21. Last-modified: March 14, 2004
  22.  
  23.                Welcome to the comp.sys.atari.8bit newsgroup!
  24.  
  25. You've found the Usenet newsgroup for discussion about the Atari 8-bit
  26. family of computers!  These include the 400, 800, 1200XL, 600XL, 800XL,
  27. 65XE, 130XE, 800XE, and the XE Game System.  Atari (based in Silicon Valley,
  28. California, USA) produced this line of computers from 1979-1992.
  29.  
  30. To see what Atari is up to today visit http://www.atari.com/
  31.  
  32. NEWSGROUP BACKGROUND:
  33. comp.sys.atari.8bit was created in November 1986, and is unmoderated.
  34. There is no charter for comp.sys.atari.8bit.  (It pre-dates that custom.)
  35. This newsgroup was known as net.micro.atari8 from Feb 1986 to Nov 1986.
  36. The earlier net.micro.atari existed from Nov 1982 to Nov 1986.
  37.  
  38. Please don't try to post binaries in comp.sys.atari.8bit, use the appropriate
  39. binaries groups instead.
  40.  
  41. RELATED NEWSGROUPS:
  42. alt.binaries.atari
  43. alt.binaries.atari.d
  44. alt.binaries.comp.atari8bit
  45. comp.emulators.misc
  46. comp.emulators.announce  Moderated.
  47. comp.sys.atari.advocacy
  48. comp.sys.atari.announce  Moderated by Kevin Savetz.
  49.   `- comp.sys.atari.announce Web Page: http://www.atariarchives.org/csaa/
  50. comp.sys.atari.programmer
  51. rec.games.video.atari
  52. rec.games.video.classic
  53.  
  54. E-MAIL LIST:
  55. atari8-l, kept by maciej grzeszczuk, info at http://atari.krap.pl/
  56. To subscribe, simply mail a message to majordomo@listserv.krap.pl, with
  57. the following line in the body (not the subject) of the message:
  58.                             subscribe atari8-l
  59.  
  60. WEB PAGES:
  61. Atari 8-bit Computer Web Ring, kept by Raphael Espino
  62.   Ring Hub: http://www.webring.com/hub?ring=a8bit
  63.   Ring Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/rjespino/a8ring.html
  64.  
  65. SOFTWARE DOWNLOADS:
  66. XL Search, the Atari 8-Bit File Archive Search Engine (Bill Kendrick)
  67.   http://xlsearch.atari.org/ or http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/xlsearch/
  68.  
  69. Underground Node #472  (TXG/MNX)
  70.   FTP Host: atari.xs4all.nl   Port: 21
  71.   User: atari8   Pass: atari4ever
  72.  
  73. INFORMATION:
  74. Atari 8-Bit Computers: Frequently Asked Questions  (Michael Current)
  75.   http://www.faqs.org/faqs/atari-8-bit/faq/
  76.  
  77. Atari 8-Bit Computers: Vendors and Developers  (Michael Current)
  78.   http://www.faqs.org/faqs/atari-8-bit/vendev/
  79.  
  80. Atari 8-bit New User, Emulator Help FAQ  (Bill Kendrick)
  81.   http://www.sonic.net/~nbs/new_and_emu.html
  82.  
  83. Atari Disk Image FAQ  (Steve Tucker)
  84.   http://www.atarimax.com/ape/docs/DiskImageFAQ/
  85.   
  86. Cartridge List for the Classic Atari 800/XL/XE Computers  (Andrew Krieg)
  87.   http://www.execpc.com/~krieg/links/8bit.carts
  88.  
  89. Atari 8-Bit Telnet BBS List  (Nolan Friedland)
  90.   http://tcfreenet.org/~friednw/bbs-telnet.html
  91.   
  92. Atari 8-Bit Dialup BBS List  (Nolan Friedland)
  93.   http://tcfreenet.org/~friednw/bbs-dialup.html
  94.   
  95. Atari SAP Music Archive: http://asma.atari.org
  96.  
  97. ONLINE MAGAZINES:
  98. http://www.myatari.net/    MyAtari
  99. http://www.atarinews.org/  Atari Online News, Etc. (A-ONE)
  100. http://www.ataritimes.com/ The Atari Times
  101.  
  102.