The Express! Cartridge is Announced

On this day, February 6th, in 1989, Orion Micro Systems announces the Express! cartridge in the 14-Feb-1989 #144 issue of Z*Magazine. The Express! cartridge is a brand new terminal program written by Keith Ledbetter for Atari 8 bit computers. The cartridge sports 64K of banked memory and is written in 100% assembler language. It will also work with any modem that has a corresponding "R:" handler. This includes, any Hayes-compatible modem connected to an Atari 850, ICD P:R: Connection, or ICD MIO interface, an Atari 1030 modem, an Atari XM301 modem, an Atari SX212 modem, and a Supra 300AT (or MPP 1000C/E) modem. The cartridge will support the XEP-80 80 column cartridge. Express! has a planned release date of June 1, 1989 and will retail for $69.95. Customers who preordered the cartridge received a $10.00 discount.