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Info-Atari16 Digest Friday, September 15, 1989 Volume 89 : Issue 473
This weeks Editor: Bill Westfield
Today's Topics:
adding a 68881
Comment on the portable spectre gcr
educational discounts
RE: Info-Atari16 Digest V89 #465
TOS 1.4 in the UK
wp -> LaTeX converter
PC Ditto, Spectre 128 And the Atari SLM804 Laser Printer
Production TOS 1.4 (un)availability
Re: ROM disassembly for TOS -- A suggestion.
Re: TOS 1.4 on disk
TOS 1.4 Compatibility List
Atari ST software for sale...
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Date: Wed, 13 Sep 89 18:52:58 BST
From: Ian D Hawkins
<idh%NABLA.ELECTRICAL-ENGINEERING.UMIST.AC.UK@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
To: info-atari16@SCORE.STANFORD.EDU
Subject: adding a 68881
I would like to add a 68881 to my ST (to go with my prospero
FORTRAN compiler). Is a reasonably priced add on board
available, or has the necessary interface circuitry been
published anywhere?. The board would probably have to bolt on
to the 68000 as the glue chip in my machine is surface mounted.
I noticed an odd effect when upgrading the RAM in my ST; it
wont allow different sized RAM banks. Bank 0=500k,bank1=2M
gives 1Mbyte total, bank 0=2M, bank1=500k gives an apparent 4M
and a swift crash!.
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Date: 13 Sep 89 19:39:47 GMT
From: agate!web-1c.berkeley.edu!laba-1aj@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Comment on the portable spectre gcr
To: info-atari16@score.stanford.edu
>From agate!ucbvax!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!leah!
csd4.csd.uwm.edu!marque!carroll1!dnewton Wed Sep 13 12:15:43 PDT 1989
%In article <872@cuphub.cup.edu> kar7481@cuphub.cup.edu (HI HO-HI HO - IS UNIX
THAT GREAT? YOU KNOW?) writes:
%>GOAL: Introduce ST's to the collegiate environment via Spectre-GCR Mac Emultr.
%
% I've had direct dealings with Atari on the feasability on this. The basic
%feeling is it's a very good idea, get a STacy w/ GCR for a portable Mac. The
%concern most people have with this idea is the lack of an AppleTalk interface.
%this limits it's usefullness to a heavily-networked environment.
Atari should develop an AppleTalk interface right away. Portable mac clone
announcements are getting pretty common, and Apple's entry is imminent. IMHO,
for the casual and middle level applications user, the STacy+SpectreGCR
combo would be the cheapest (read: most reasonable) mac clone. However,
I know of one company which has taken a page from Gadgets By Small and
announced a clone which requires that the user obtain mac ROMs and plug it
into the computer. This may not sound worlds apart from the ST+GCR package,
but it is: the other machine offers Appletalk, it is probably upgradeable to
256K ROMs, and it probably takes a 68030 optionally. I'd expect other
mac clone makers to make machines with these features. And if I recall,
the entry systems wil be around $3000.
What I'm getting to is that Atari and GBS had better speed things up and/or
synchronize the releases of their respective products. If they don't they
will lose potential sales of Stacys and GCRs to more agile mac clones.
& John Kawakami
& laba-1aj@web.berkeley.edu
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Date: 13 Sep 89 19:15:31 GMT
From: iris.ucdavis.EDU!hulse@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu (C.A. Hulse)
Subject: educational discounts
To: info-atari16@score.stanford.edu
[interesting comments deleted]
> (Find that hard to believe.) They are missing out on a great opportunity to
> get some of the brightest minds interested in their machines by not offering
> mass educational discounts (quantity one) like Apple and IBM (just started
> offering quantity one discounts recently I think). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Is Atari now offering educational discounts? I've been trying to scrape money
up for a system for six months or so - something like this might actually let
me buy some software too, rather than just heat my room with it...
"Just my (own) two cents..."
--Andy Hulse
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Date: Wed, 13 Sep 89 15:28 EST
From: "DOUGLAS BOTTOMS, TRANSPORTER CHIEF OF DEPAUW"
<DBOTTOMS%DePauw.Bitnet@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: RE: Info-Atari16 Digest V89 #465
To: Info-Atari16@Score.Stanford.edu
X-VMS-To: IN%"Info-Atari16@Score.Stanford.edu"
I am really impressed with this discusion list...I've been reading this list
for 2 weeks and already love it. I'm purchasing an ATARI 1040ST by the end of
next sat.(9-18) and would like to know the following:
1. How do I get on, or find the Public Domain?
2. how do I get on, or find the BBS's around my area(Clayton or
Greencastle, Indiana