My adolescent fantasies FINALLY fulfilled!

From: Arlen Michaels <Arlen.Michaels.amichael_at_nt.com>
Date: Tue Nov 24 21:48:05 1998

> Aaron Christopher Finney <A_Finney_at_wfi-inc.com> wrote:
>
> I finally got an ATR8000. Man, I dreamed of having one of these every
> night, reading the SWP brochure until it literally fell apart. Every time
> I went to buy one on ePay, someone would come along and push the price
> *way* beyond what I wanted to pay. Anyway, I just got one for $60 (I know
> many of you think that's still ridiculously high, but I've been waiting
> ~12 years for one of these things) that came with a giant stack of disks,
> manuals, and cables. The usual CP/M stuff; Wordstar, Supercalc, etc.
> Unfortunately, I'm at work and have to wait a few hours before I can try
> it out.
>
> Well, at least now I will stop harrassing everyone who posts to the list
> about picking one of these things up for $5...
>
How about the ATR Co-Power II? The one I found recently has an 8088 and
256K RAM, so I presume it was intended let an Atari run MSDOS. It looks
like it dates from around 1984. Can you comment a bit more on the history
of these ATR second processor cards and do you happen to know how many
different types they eventually made?

Arlen Michaels amichael_at_nortel.ca
Received on Tue Nov 24 1998 - 21:48:05 GMT