lbert359@pallas.athenanet.com (Lee Bertagnolli) (02/19/90)
I have in my posessions FIVE (count 'em five) Atari XEP80's. They
are brand new and have never been out off the box. The XEP80 is, or course,
the 80-column option for the Atari 8-bit computers. The XEP80 also has
a standard parallel port.
I would love to dump these things, but will part with them one at a time.
Any reasonable offer will be accepted, but you must pay the shipping.
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Hello I would be interested in knowing at what price you would expect to get for an XEP80. I have been wondering about the usefulness of XEP80z. metalist/Bryan Jones Woodworth
slackey@bbn.com (Stan Lackey) (02/21/90)
In article <27134@cup.portal.com> Metalist@cup.portal.com (Bryan Jones Woodworth) writes: >Hello I would be interested in knowing at what price you would expect to get >for an XEP80. I have been wondering about the usefulness of XEP80z. XEP80's run at around $80 through mail order, don't they? I bought a used one through the net for $40. I would guess that the guy with 5 would probably take $40 or $50 (forgot the name). I think that the Atari is missing something at 40 cols. I think 80 cols almost makes it a computer (now all I need is a hard disk or ramdisk... sigh). Software would be the issue. Any program that dosn't conflict with the driver (in memory), that does standard I/O to the E: device should work. My editor, which simply repaints the screen with any change doesn't, so I am in the process of rewriting it (and am including many other features as well). I think it is a great addition. The XEP80 includes a parallel printer port, which I haven't needed or used yet. -Stan
Metalist@cup.portal.com (Bryan Jones Woodworth) (02/27/90)
Stan: Thanks for your input on the XEP80. I have a few questions about 80 column drivers: - Can the XEP80 display crisp 80 column text on a 13" color TV? - Can the XEP80 display ATASCII graphics (the ATASCII character set) On a mono/amber screen monitor? (Or if I were using an XEP80 with a mono monitor, would I need to use ASCII translation when modeming?) - There is a PD 80 column driver I am sure you have seen that sets up 80 columns o the screen. But this won't work with, say, BOBTERMwill it? Upon loading of BOBTERM wouldn't the 80column handler cause some sort of crash?? Thanks!! Metalist/BJW
kimes@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (Kit Kimes) (03/07/90)
From article <27342@cup.portal.com>, by Metalist@cup.portal.com (Bryan Jones Woodworth): > > - There is a PD 80 column driver I am sure you have seen that sets up 80 > columns o the screen. But this won't work with, say, BOBTERM will it? Upon > loading of BOBTERM wouldn't the 80column handler cause some sort of crash?? I just set up my configuration for BOBTERM this weekend. It seems like an excellent program (V1.1) and Bob Puff will definitely get my shareware check by the weekend. If you are using Version 1.1 of BobTerm, it allows you to add modules that give you extra capability. This is supposed to be new for V1.1. I did not see V1.0 or earlier so I can't say. Anyway, one of the modules that came with the disk I got from our users group library is a module to allow you to use the XEP80 with BobTerm. I didn't try it because I don't have one, but it is available. Might be just what you are looking for. Kit Kimes AT&T Bell Labs Naperville, IL ...!att!iwtsa!kimes