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From: oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious Oyster)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari
Subject: Re: old ATARI's !!!!!!!!!!
Message-ID: <1523@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-Oct-85 11:16:38 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  3 11:16:38 1985
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In article <5340001@acf4.UUCP> phinn@acf4.UUCP (Jorge F. Phinn) writes:
>Hey, old ATARI owners, what happend to you?
>Did you all get ST's or did you just give in to the pressure?

   Pressure?  What pressure?

>Wake up, get active, let's win this battle...

   Battle?  What battle?

>C'mon, in the whole directory there is only one note that has to do with
>the old ATARI line.  Let's do something about it.

   Old ATARI line?  What old ATARI line?

>To start with, has anybody had a chance to play with KYAN PASCAL yet?

   I don't care much for pascal in any form (part of my job
is supporting a pascal compiler), but I do have a small problem
which I thought I might share with y'all, though I think I'll have
decided what to do soon anyway.
   All my woes seem to stem from the fact that I have a 1200XL.  First,
I hear that the local user's group is upgrading their XL's to 512K (of
which 256K should be directly addressable, the rest being ramdisk).  But
no, they don't know how to do it to a 1200XL, and don't even know if it
*can* be done without ripping the thing apart.  So scratch that idea.
Then, I order a great little printer (tractor & friction feed, 36
different print modes (through the magic of combinatorics), 8 built-in
domestic & foreign character sets, bi-directional printing, NLQ mode,
256 user-definable down-loadable characters, etc.) and am really impressed
when it merely does a self-test.  But will the 1200XL supply the interface
with the necessary current?  Not a chance.  Next, I hear from a faceless
net person about a nice 80-column thingee, and express interest.  Guess
what?  Yup, it will work with every 8-bit Atari *except* the 1200XL.
   Well, now that I wrote it all down and looked at it, it seems kinda
clear that I should get myself an 800XL before they're all gone, and
try to sell my 1200 to the user group's hardware people for spare parts.
However, if anybody has any other suggestions, at least on what interface
will drive my printer for me, I'd be willing to listen.  Or if you just
want to reinforce my near-conclusion, that'd be fine too.  Ah, well;
such is life.

 - joel "vo" plutchak
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