phinn@acf4.UUCP (Jorge F. Phinn) (10/01/85)
Hey, old ATARI owners, what happend to you? Did you all get ST's or did you just give in to the pressure? Wake up, get active, let's win this 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. To start with, has anybody had a chance to play with KYAN PASCAL yet? The reviews in the last issue of ANTIC are pretty good, all the silly things the language is missing can easily be simulated, etc... Has anybody purchased the package? What are your responces?
oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious Oyster) (10/03/85)
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 {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!oyster