angel@bentley.UUCP (02/27/87)
I recently heard that Atari has a PC clone. It allegedly doesnt have add in slots, but comes will fully memory (640K), a PGA equivalent, floppy and hard disk controllers, serial and parallel ports. And all for less than $500. Has anybody out there heard of such a beast? Angel
john@viper.UUCP (03/04/87)
In article <914@bentley.UUCP> angel@bentley.UUCP writes: >I recently heard that Atari has a PC clone. It allegedly doesnt >have add in slots, but comes will fully memory (640K), a PGA >equivalent, floppy and hard disk controllers, serial and >parallel ports. And all for less than $500. > >Has anybody out there heard of such a beast? > Yes. Heard-of and seen.... Looks like a nice machine. I'll probably buy one in a few months... BTW, it does have 1 expansion slot (so I was told) and Atari has plans to sell and expansion box with additional slots and maybe room and power supply for a hard drive that will plug into the existing slot. The $500 price is for the machine without monitor... If you want their multi-mode mono monitor (auto detects color signals and synthisyzes gray-scale substitutions to display the color modes) the machine+monitor is ~= $700. I figure $700 is more than reasonable for a 640k, mono/graphics + CGA + EGA machine with both serial and printer ports built in... --- John Stanley (john@viper.UUCP) Software Consultant - DynaSoft Systems UUCP: ...{amdahl,ihnp4,rutgers}!{meccts,dayton}!viper!john
164485913@excalibur.UUCP (Schaffer) (03/05/87)
In article <914@bentley.UUCP>, angel@bentley.UUCP writes: > I recently heard that Atari has a PC clone. It allegedly doesnt > have add in slots, but comes will fully memory (640K), a PGA > equivalent, floppy and hard disk controllers, serial and > parallel ports. And all for less than $500. > > Has anybody out there heard of such a beast? > > Angel > Yes, indeed, Atari does have a PC clone, and it sounds quite nice from what I hear. It has a switchable (4.77/8 MHz) 8086 board with 8087 socket and comes with 512K (expandable to 640K on board) and one 5.25" floppy drive. A second external drive (5.25" or 3.5") can be added. There is also a serial, a parallel, a video, a mouse, and a ST-type disk port along the rear, but there are no expansion slots (no more room!) The video modes supported are the Hercules mono, CGA, and optional EGA. I heard that there is a special monochrome monitor that can display all modes using gray-scales. Cost ranges from $500 (no EGA) to $700 (w/EGA & mono monitor). -- ======================================================================= | Mark Schaffer | Disclaimer: The preceding ideas are mine,| | Villanova University | all mine, except in cases of | | (Go Wildcats!!) | being brainwashed by others. | ======================================================================= | Don't let the turkeys | Kirk (about Spock): "...he took too much | | get you down! | LDS in the '60's." | |====================================================================== | US SNAIL: 314 Grays Lane, Haverford, PA 19041 | | | | Collie Net: #1/804 or #9/804 Reduced to a mere number! | | / | | UUCP: ...ihnp4!psuvax1!vu-vlsi!excalibur!164485913 | | ...burdvax!/ | | ...cbmvax!/ or simply: 164485913@excalibur.UUCP | | ...pyrnj!/ | | ... bpa!/ | | | | BITNET: 164485913@vuvaxcom | =======================================================================