In <f05001900b80791692a27_at_[209.244.213.60]>, on 11/01/01
at 07:13 PM, Jeff Hellige <jhellige_at_earthlink.net> said:
> Plus, without 3rd party
>enhancements the 1050 had the same slow data transfer rate as the 810.
>The Happy upgrade nearly tripled the rate. I'm not sure what the data
>transfer rate of the GT's were using DOS XL with syncromesh turned on.
The 1050 was a twitch faster but the US Doubler turned it into a rock of a
double density drive and provided the boost from 19.2kbps to 54.4kbps.
I've seen ads for a 108kbps upgrade in Europe but Bob P told me the
timeing would be twitchy in the US.
All the other 1050 update rom/ram jobs were good. I never used an 810 for
much though. I got into the Atari when the 1200xl was released. That was
my first 'real' computer. The maligned orphan 1200xl happened to be the
best 8-bit machine Atari ever made. I've got one still and have done the
800xl rom mod, and the internal basic mod. On this particular one I tried
Bob Wooley's 1200xl PBI mod. ALLL THOSE CONNECTIONS. I double checked,
rechecked etc. I even redid the mod completely with a new set of chips and
cable. Nothing. Not 'no video'. The machine works perfectly when
connected to my Black Box or not. It just doesn't SEE the Black Box.
I haven't seen any updates to the 1200xl PBI mod and I don't think it
quite works. I think the PBI is not being selected or something. One
more line and it would work I swear....
Anawho the machine still works fine so I left the mod installed. There
are something like 40 wire connections you have to make on different sides
of the motherboard plus a rom change/upgrade. I'd trash my xe in a second
if I could make that 1200xl and it's beautiful keyboard work with a hard
disk.
> That's cool...I didn't run my own BBS until later when I put it on an
>XT using QuickBBS. A friend of mine ran a board off of a PCjr using
>FIDO and the single floppy drive and a 300bps modem. Needless to say, it
>was pretty much for messages only.
Early I ran Kenny Sallot's (The Timelord) TARDIS bbs in 83' or so. We
shared an apartment. At first it was on my Percoms then on the ATR, then
on a 1mb MIO and a 20mb Xebec hdd with an Adaptec ACB400a controller.
The guy was a big, hamfisted, gifted programmer. He wrote the code for
the Tardis himself on a modified AMIS. Useing Basic XE and the extra 64k
in the 130xe? Most sane people used it as a ramdisk. Not Kenny.
He wrote it so that modules and menus were stored in a single 64k string
and used a lookup routine because it was a little bit faster and used less
memory than a ramdisk driver. Gross huh? This guy could fit an elephant in
a vw microbus. The name of the software (TDXE) stood for Technical
Difficulties bbs XE. He got a ton of traffic and the board actually ran
pretty well.
>>CSS (Computer Software Services) is now known as New Life Electronics
>>(http://www.nleaudio.com). Bob has allways made hifi stuff. A catalogue,
>>information, docs, source, and other such is on the site. To this day Bob
>>is STILL an Atari hacker. Something of a god he is to me.
> Looks like he's not updated the site in a while. It's good to know
>he's still out there though. It seems all of these communities have a
>couple of people that have been elevated to near-god status.
Bob Puff, Bob Wooley, and Claus Buckholtz. I'd like to erect a trio of
statues 300 feet high and made of bronze in Gorky Park.
I mean we won. Didn't we?.....
Regards,
Jeff
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Jeffrey S. Worley
Asheville, NC USA
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UberTechnoid_at_Home.com
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