Atari PCH204

From: Curt Vendel <curt_at_atarimuseum.com>
Date: Tue Dec 24 00:34:34 2002

Hi Witchy,

   I've got a stack of the buggers in my storage room. Basically they were
intended for use on the PC Series of computers. Interestingly enough,
Atari had about 3 different versions of them, one with an Atari ASCI
interface, others SASI and another straight MFM. Inside the PC-1's is an
ISA compatible set of headers and you plugged an adaptec controller card in
and it would have an external interface port, one had straight pinouts going
to a ribbon cable into the PCH204 with an internal MFM controller. I
don't think Atari really knew which way that had wanted to go at the time
and while it was a very big and bold project, they canned the PC-1 just a
few months after its launch realizing it was too little too late in
releasing an XT-ish clone in 87 and they concentrated on their 286, 386 and
486sx clones.


Curt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Witchy" <witchy_at_binarydinosaurs.co.uk>
To: <cctech_at_classiccmp.org>
Cc: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 12:53 PM
Subject: Atari PCH204


> Hi all,
>
> Xmas greetings from a slightly warmer and definitely more damp than last
> week UK :)
>
> Having moved my entire collection back to the house over the weekend
(which
> is a clever thing to do with cracked/broken ribs I'm sure) I rediscovered
my
> Atari PC-1 and its external drive - the PCH204. Google turns up nothing
> about this drive apart from an ebay auction back in 2000 and a polish
> newsgroup, so does anyone know anything about it and it's (presumably)
SASI
> interface for the PC-1? All the bumf I can find on the PC-1 says there was
> no expandability, but I've got an expanded one :)
>
> Any help gratefully received.
>
> cheers
>
> --
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