Curt Vendel

There are several product specifications documents that were done. The original design was to have 8 slots, with a Julie FIFO buffer box, an SIO card for 800 usage (not sure how that wouldve worked) The 5 slot spec with Julie FIFO then the final which was the production spec which was the 5 Slot with the Buffer in the 1090 http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/8BITS/XL/xlperipherals/1090xl.html

I have 2 others in storage, but here are mine:

Ill be doing some arcade specialized ones next month. Ill be doing the 2600 versions for a while, then see when Ill do more 7800 ones. The machine shop work takes a lot of time.

If youve filled in the form at 7800xm.com with your current mailing info and whatever previous order information you had Ill do my best to make sure your XM pre-order ships

I'm looking through my disks currently for my old Wargames dialer. Used that many a night to auto-dial out to hunt down and find Sprint, MCI and ATT long distance calling codes. Was always nice to wake up the next morning and find 1-2 new codes on the printer. Just like the movie, the dialer would dial up the Long distance exchange, send a long distance calling code in sequence, then try to call a Compuserve number in another state, if the connection was successful, it printed out that code on the printer. If not, it was hang up, try the next calling code and just dial all night for several nights on end till it hit on a valid code. Made for great trade bait to gain access to the pirate levels on BBS' to get the latest new games to download... ah.. the good old days :-)

Here is the new CMC page up on Atari Museum's new 400/800 section... Still filling in the remaining gaps on things, only have about 1 more week to go before its completed. Doing ROM dumps and postings tonight. http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/8BITS/3rdparty/Storage/CMC/index.htm

Regarding 825's... Expect many at this time and their age to have dried out capacitors on their power section, replacements are readily available from digikey, jamesco and mouser. Those old Centronic's 737 system boards were only supposed to be expected to be used for 3-5 years maximum, I don't think anyone ever envisioned they'd still be in use nearly 40 years later :-)

Sixty five OH two

Board is mostly SMD for final production. Through hole was just for development

I'm very happy to announce that Rikki and Vikki and the 7800XM all work well together.

This is for The Doctor: Just some quick photos, Ill post up a formal page this weekend

Dave sold me everything - about a dozen 8" disk drive controller boards, the schematics and the source code, so I'll be posted those all up. I gave a board to John Hardie at the National Videogame History Museum so they have one for reference too.

Yes, each section is going to tricked out it into own Motif to match the computer styling. The XL's I start beginning of April with the new main menu for them and the 1200XL gets the first round of attention and receive a major new set of pages for it. The XE's I'm looking very much forward to, going to have a LOT of creativity fun with those. Thanks, glad you like the new look.

Mine arrived today, the box is just 80s perfect with silver ink printing, wow!!! Just wrapped up work, so I am going to see how R&V get along with the XM...

Shawn... I wasnt implying that I was going to do it.

I bought out Dave Sheppard's remaining Atari items from when he worked there. Some very interesting oddities such an 8" Disk Drive controllers for the SIO bus (will be posting photo's in next week or some onto Atari Museum. I'm in the middle of a major overhaul of Atari Museum and adding a lot of information on various 3rd party upgrades and such. Well, Dave worked on the side and was the engineer for a company called California Microlink Corporation and one of their products was going to be the Easy I/O board. Again, another board that used that magically well pinned Slot #3 and provide a Parallel and Serial port to the Atari 800's. Dave said they never sold any and he only built a few and they are long gone in a landfill, but a mailer does still exist, so at least that is something to prove it at one point existed. You can click on the image and download a 300dpi PDF of the mailer. http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/8BITS/3rdparty/ExpansionBoards/Other/CMC/index.htm If anyone wants their 800 expansion board upgrade posted on the Atari Museum section, please send me a PM and we can discuss getting it posted up. Thanks. So you can make all but one chip from the mailer... So looks like this would've been directly addressing... maybe its time we started to look into recreating a modern version of this?

Those were pre-production units.

B&C Sells the Atari logo labels.

Definitely a very early production unit, I saw 7/79 on the power board and the hand written serial first part - 949 means 1979 - 49th week, so its a 1979 release unit. The CPU board is show early date codes on the chips as well. The green cartridge connector is definitely non-standard. You have a nice unit there. (two thumbs up!)

AHS Co-founder Karl comes back out of his hiding spot just in time for a St Patricks miracle. Wow, Atarimuseum.com is in the middle of a grounds up rebuild (the 400/800 section is where its all starting from right now, plus the new home page graphic) and now Atari Explorer is coming back --- We're getting the band back together!

You need a can of Jolt.

I have RDOS disks, Im looking for the binary of the EPROM chip to put into a RAMROD board

Anyone has a dump of the RDOS binary from the RDOS eprom for a RAMROD ?

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Gotcha, thanks! :-)