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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Subject: Re: Networking 8bits with the cartridge port.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.163743.12471@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
- From: rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins)
- Date: 1 Sep 92 16:37:43 -0500
- References: <Jim_Johnson.07qb@abcd.Houghton.MI.US>
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- In article <Jim_Johnson.07qb@abcd.Houghton.MI.US>, Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson) writes:
- > A firm in Warren, Michigan, USA called Innovative Concepts produced a
- > scheme using a 400/800 connected to a XL/XE via the cartridge port. The
- > RAM in the 400/800 could be used for either a printer buffer or a RAM disk.
- > Once upon a time (isn't that how all fairy tales begin), ICD was to release
- > a special ROM for the MIO to permit true networking. (I suspect that the
- > chip would allow the MIO to have different SCSI addresses)
-
- What I think would be grand is a cheap networking scheme,
- unfortunately, I don't think there is a practical way of implementing it
- though.
-
- The reason I would like to see one is that I now have 3 800XLs and
- a 400, but only two drives. (But I don't have the money to buy the
- multiplexer from CSS, I am a poor college student! :-( )
-
- Later.......
-
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