Ordania-DM@cup.portal.com (Charles K Hughes) (03/02/90)
Get a copy of "Mapping the Atari" by Compute! Books. Make sure it is the revised copy. (It says revised on the cover). It has a section that gives the pinouts for the Parallel bus. How to use it is a different matter. If you have some electronics experience, it isn't too hard, if you don't then I would suggest giving Antic (the Atari magazine, NOT the amiga, or fantasy mag) a call and asking them which issues they ran the PBI (parallel bus interface) articles in, and then ordering them. You could also just send mail to me with specific questions, I might not be able to answer them, but I'll sure try. Ordania-DM Charles_K_Hughes @cup.portal.com
smb@cs.purdue.EDU (Scott Ballew) (03/04/90)
In article <49700013@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> pm16579@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes: > > > > I don't think any 3rd party > manufacturers have taken advantage of it, though. > > Paulito Mendoza I beg to differ! Sitting behind my 800xl at home is ICD's MIO board. This nifty little gadget (which I believe is still sold and supported by ICD) provides 256k (or 1Meg) of ram for use as BOOTABLE ramdrive(s), printer buffers, etc. as well as a SCSI/SASI disk port, RS232C serial port (looks just like R1: on the 850), Centronics parallel printer port (again, just like on the 850) and has a place for putting in ICD's 80 column board (I don't have this :-( ). Also, although the name escapes me, there is another company that put out a hard disk system that ran from the parallel port. Scott Ballew Purdue University Department of Computer Sciences
ain1496e@merrimack.edu (03/05/90)
In article <9903@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>, smb@cs.purdue.EDU (Scott Ballew) writes: > In article <49700013@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> pm16579@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes: >> >> >> >> I don't think any 3rd party >> manufacturers have taken advantage of it, though. >> >> Paulito Mendoza > > I beg to differ! Sitting behind my 800xl at home is ICD's MIO board. This > nifty little gadget (which I believe is still sold and supported by ICD) > provides 256k (or 1Meg) of ram for use as BOOTABLE ramdrive(s), > printer buffers, etc. as well as a SCSI/SASI disk port, RS232C serial port > (looks just like R1: on the 850), Centronics parallel printer port (again, > just like on the 850) and has a place for putting in ICD's 80 column board > (I don't have this :-( ). Also, although the name escapes me, there > is another company that put out a hard disk system that ran from the > parallel port. > The other company is Supra, I have a Supra Hard Disk Interface attached to the port. However Supra no longer supports its, they sold the rights to the product to another company. I dont know the name of it off hand.
Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com (03/12/90)
And there's yet another hard-disk-and-other-stuff interface that plugs into the parallel port: it's in Beta test in a few folks' hands in Rochester, NY, and is produced by Computer Software Services (I believe that's the name; the acronym is CSS) also in Rochester. Call Bob Puff's "Computer World Jr." BBS at (716) 247-8355 for direct con- tact and the numbers of the other nodes of the BBS...
Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com (03/12/90)
Forgot to mention the NAME of CSS' baby: "The Black Box." It handles a hard disk and several floppy drives, printer port, serial (i.e. modem) port, etc... It's a kick to be able to use the modem and disk channels at the SAME time (can't do THAT with the 850!)... not to mention having lots of built-in diagnostic and management software...