Message-ID: <1243@mhuxd.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Jan-84 16:27:28 EST
Article-I.D.: mhuxd.1243
Posted: Mon Jan 23 16:27:28 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Jan-84 06:17:34 EST
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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Anyone considering the purchase of peripherals for their Ataris
should read the article/review/plug (?) on a piece of gear called
ATR8000 on page 329 of the December '83 issue of BYTE.  The vanilla
version of this thing is claimed to interface all sorts of devices
INCLUDING DISK DRIVES.  The article uses the example of the Tandon
TM-100 for ~$200.  In addition, there is a Centronics printer port
and an RS232 serial port.  Unless you're going to load up your
system with gear, it's probably not worth the listed $348, BUT,
all other versions of the ATR8000 are stand-alone micros in addition
to Atari peripheral interfaces, either CP/M or MS/DOS, depending on
your pocketbook.  This sounds really interesting.  If anyone has
any additional info on the ATR8000 (not in the article), I'd like
to hear it and, I expect, so would others.

					Chip