njd@cbnewsd.att.com (nick.j.dimasi) (06/14/91)
(I tried to reply by mail, but it bounced. Since this is of general interest anyway, I am posting it, minus extraneous mailer output - Nick DiMasi) |------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ---------------------| unixland!asgardia ... unknown user |------------------------- Message text follows: ------------------------| Date: Wed, 12 Jun 91 19:05:47 EDT From: world.std.com!odutsa.att.com!njd (Nick J Dimasi) To: unixland!asgardia Subject: Re: 1200xl - remember that? Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit In-Reply-To: <i2ye43w163w@unixland.uucp> References: <676362087.11@egsgate.FidoNet.Org> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Cc: In article <i2ye43w163w@unixland.uucp> you write: >> ..... > >I have an 800, an 800xl, and a 1200xl and while I think the 800 had a nice >keyboard to it, the "feel" and lighness of the 1200xl'S board is > ..... >I read somewhere about putting an IBM keyboard on an atari... >THat would be great.. (probably cost an arm..). Depends on how much an arm & a leg are worth :-) The TransKey board, which is the interface between the IBM keyboard and the 8-bit Atari, costs under $50 (in fact it's on sale now). It's available from DataQue (maker of the Turbo-816 board and other stuff for the 8-bit Atari - if you want the address & tel. #, send me mail and I'll look it up at home. DataQue acquired TransKey from Micro Solutions, and has posted notices on the online services, etc.). IBM keyboards can be had for cheap (I've seen somewhere, an article saying that they can be found for as little as $25, but I don't know for sure), so maybe you could swing it. Nick DiMasi | Fox Valley Software, Ltd. --------------------------------------- nick@udt386.chi.il.us | a subsidiary of [I'm not there as much] | Uniq Digital Technologies, Inc. .att!odutsa!njd [I'm on here a lot] | or njd@odutsa.att.com | under contract to AT&T Network Systems DELPHI: TURBONICK | (Network Software Ctr., Lisle, IL)
asgardia@unixland.uucp (Craig Rothman) (06/15/91)
njd@cbnewsd.att.com (nick.j.dimasi) writes: > (I tried to reply by mail, but it bounced. Since this is of general interest > has posted notices on the online services, etc.). IBM keyboards can be > had for cheap (I've seen somewhere, an article saying that they can be > found for as little as $25, but I don't know for sure), so maybe you > could swing it. > > Nick DiMasi | Fox Valley Software, Ltd. > --------------------------------------- > nick@udt386.chi.il.us | a subsidiary of > [I'm not there as much] | Uniq Digital Technologies, Inc. > .att!odutsa!njd [I'm on here a lot] | > or njd@odutsa.att.com | under contract to AT&T Network System > DELPHI: TURBONICK | (Network Software Ctr., Lisle, IL) Thanks for the info. I can be reached on Delphi as ASGARDIAN.. I heard that he was going to look into buying the ICD line too. Is that true? -craig