Weekend addition- Atari

From: Roger Merchberger <zmerch_at_northernway.net>
Date: Tue Dec 2 11:27:22 1997

Due to massive amounts of caffeine & sleep deprivation, SUPRDAVE_at_aol.com said:
>While doing my usual thrift store rounds, i bought an atari 65XE, xmm801
>printer, two disk drives, and joysticks, all for five bucks! a little surface
>cleaning, and it will look like brand new. anyone know compatibility on this?
>it uses the 1050 disk drives, which makes me think it's more or less
>compatible with an 800xl, since it can run dos 2-3. i'm also missing the main
>computer power supply, although i did get two for the drives. if anyone has a
>copy of atari dos 2, 2.5 or 3, i'd need a copy mailed to me since i'd have no
>other way of acquiring it.

It's 800xl compatible _if_ you expand the memory, which IIRC was 64K
standard in the 65xe but 128K (or bigger...) in the 800xl. However, you
shouldn't have any problem running dos 2.5, which I own and can make you
copies for if you don't mind waiting for the weekend... as I don't have
time tor re-assemble my 800 until then.

HTH,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Received on Tue Dec 02 1997 - 11:27:22 GMT

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