Whoa! Talk about plug-n-play!
Jeff
> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 14:09:34 -0700 (PDT)
> Reply-to: classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu
> From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_crl.com>
> To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers" <classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Re: REAL plug&play hardware
> On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Jeff Hellige wrote:
>
> > same general I/O ports as the Atari disk drives and such. You turn on the
> > modem first, then the Atari 8bit, and the 8bit actually boots into a program
> > called 'Modemlink', which is stored in ROM on the modem. No disks, cartridges
> > or anything...just the computer and the modem! Modemlink is pretty basic, but
>
> What a sweet paradigm.
>
>
> Sam
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