Smashing find! Well, sort of..

From: LordTyran <a2k_at_one.net>
Date: Fri May 14 19:43:35 1999

This isn't exactly a Univac rescue, but I still think it's kinda cool:

For $25 today at a garage sale, I got an Atari 800 with some extra RAM
(don't know for sure yet), 1050 disk drive (no disks :( ), Atari 850
Interface (this thing has 4 female serial ports on the back, one parallel
port on the side, 2 i/o ports, power switch, light, and power connecter on
the front (not exactly a nice place to have all your cables running off...
oh well). From what I get from the small amount of documentation, the 850
is just a serial interface.. but there's no modem. I'd REALLY love to use
it for that, or at least as a terminal on one of my UN*X boxen... any
information would be greatly appreciated.

Oh yeah, there were several carts and joysticks.. I made the mistake of
letting my dad play with Packman.. we had an 2600 in the 80s... deja vous
all over again... didn't see him again for an hour.

Kevin

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