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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
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- From: jjmcwill@next3 (Jeffrey J. McWilliams)
- Subject: Re: New Address...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.171734.23386@mtu.edu>
- Sender: news@mtu.edu
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- Reply-To: jjmcwill@mathlab.mtu.edu
- Organization: Michigan Technological University
- References: <Dec16.054337.48996@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:17:34 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- In article <Dec16.054337.48996@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- spatton@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Samuel Patton) writes:
- > On to Atari business.... Does anyone have any Percom controller cards out
- > there that they want to sell? I would like to hook up some larger
- > capacity disk drives to my 1200XL.
- >
- > Also, what do I need to do to get the 800XL OS to go into my 1200XL?
- > What are the advantages of changing it???
-
- Well, more software will run with it, and you have the option of
- installing the internal Atari BASIC ROM as well.
- >
- > I have been seriously considering the purchase of an 800XL to get the
- > Parallel Bus. Anyone selling a bare 800XL board that I could put in
- > a PC case????
-
- Actually, once you've done the 800XL OS ROM upgrade to your 800XL, it isn't
- much work to add a Parallel BUS. The only problem is, you won't end up
- with a 50 conductor card edge connector, you would use a header connector
- or something like that instead, so a Black Box cable would need a IDC PIN
- connector crimped onto the end, next to the 50 cond. edge card connector
- that comes with it. The 1200XL motherboard is the same size as the 800XL
- motherboard, I just found that out last night. I was making measurements
- for installing a XF551 3.5" drive and controller inside my 1200XL, and
- had the mother board out, and compared it with my topless 800XL.
- The 1200XL is bigger
- because the first several inches at the front of the computer
- are empty space, the top cover comes down really low here.
-
- --
- Jeff McWilliams jjmcwill@mathlab.mtu.edu EE Engineer --> Michigan Tech.
- On Linden, when the sun was low,
- All bloodless lay the untrodden snow,
- And dark as winter was the flow
- Of Iser, rolling rapidly.
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