At 04:01 PM 4/29/97 -0400, Roger Merchberger wrote:
>Nope. Sorry about this, but I used to work for RS and I have an Atari
>800... (sorry... no spare power supplies) and I can honestly say that I
>doubt you will find any power supply from there that puts out AC. The only
>machine that I can remember (and I remember most) from RS that took an AC
>wart was the Tandy MC-10 (micro color computer), which took 8VAC at 1A
>IIRC. You can't even get this PS from RS anymore, and it was for their own
>computer!
>
>Sadly, if it ain't DC, RS won't have one...
>
>One thing I would be willing to do (when I have time, which won't be for at
>least a month) is to open one of my PS's for an exact schematic & parts
>list to build your own. I do know all the parts to build an AC PS are
>available at the Shack... not sure of cost, of course.
>
>Lemme know if you want me to do this, and remind me in a couple of months
>that I volunteered to perform said surgery.
>
That's a shocker for me. I think I need to learn a little more about
electronics, and if you tear yours apart, I would love to have a copy of the
schematics. It might be a good learners project for me, and useful as well.
>On this note... I do know that there is a *lot* of software on the Web for
>8-bits, but does anyone know where I can find a utility to read/write SSSD
>Atari disks on my IBM? I do know that the extended density stuff is just
>not possible on PeeCee's, but SD should be possible.
At
http://www.emulators.com the now have the schematics for their xformer
cable on the web site, which should work with their xformer software, there
is also a product called ape which is at
http://www.nacs.net/~classics which
allows you to connect your atari to a pc. They also have schematics and a
program to run an atari disk with a pc, to copy and create disks. I have
read a lot of flap about incompatibilities writing disks back and forth
between the two types of drives. Of course, you could get a black box or an
atr8000 and I think that would allow you to use a pc floppy with your atari.
I have actually never tried any of these, I just use a null modem cable and
transfer the software back and forth.
Isaac Davis
idavis_at_comland.com
indavis_at_juno.com
Received on Tue Apr 29 1997 - 15:47:24 BST