Curt Vendel

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! You took a LOT of pictures :-)

TSA seemed to really screw up a lot of people's travel and even took some things that people brought to do exhibits and work. Best thing is to find a local contact and UPS stuff to them for the show and UPS the stuff back for safety.

Couple of interviews were done over at the Atari Museum exhibit that I'm looking forward to seeing posted. I felt bad Saturday night, Evan needed to get things closed up and the interviewers told me it was only going to be a few minutes and it went for nearly 30 and I saw Evan behind them trying to give me a signal to get them to wrap up so I kind rushed in some last words and cut right to the end so they could finish and we could get out of the exhibit hall and let Evan close things up. Real sorry Evan :-(

Hi Everyone, Okay... sorry about the Hiatus. I was focusing on exhibiting at VCF East and that took up a major about of my spare time as I did a fairly extensive exhibit on the 40th Anniversary of the Atari 400/800 computers there and Joe Decuir was very gracious to join me and come out to the show and the VCF team even setup a speaker spot for him on Sunday which was jam packed and it was a great talk. So with that, I'm basic in "MARIA MODE" and I will be finishing up some final tweaking and testing of the audio amp, testing out the latest XM BIOS and posting some reports this coming weekend. Thank you everyone, now back to our regular programming....

Candy ain't no slouch either

It was great seeing you too. My first time meet Nir in person as well as many others from Atari age... that is THE best part about these shows, getting to meet up with everyone in person.

Karl, I can't tell you how happy I was to see you again after all these years. Very glad we got a chance to catch up and talk each others ears off about Atari for a while. Thank you for coming out.

VCF will release the official video shortly.

Joe Decuir is starting his talk.

VCF was absolutely amazing today. Got to catch up many old friends and meet many new ones. The Atari exhibit stretched the entire length of the large exhibit hall. Crowds were streaming through constantly, lots of people asking questions, having fun and lots of smiles all around. The 400/800 40th Anniversary exhibit seems to be a big hit with everyone and it only took like 4 hours to get everything upacked, built and items arranged. The ERIC laserdisc was occasionally getting stuck or people were opening the lid on the 800 and stopping it, but it actually was more well behave than usual. Big thanks to Kevin, Peter, Dean, Bill and the other Bill, Thom, Nir, Maceij and my fellow co-host at the 400/800 exhibit - Claus. Looking forward to Sunday. Will be picking Joe Decuir up at the airport to bring him down for his 9:30am talk.

I have an MMI PAL20L10 that I need read and I need to program a few duplicates of it, anyone have experience and the needed programmer for this? Please PM me, thank you.

Lot more to follow, I have a lot of material for the 1090XL and the PBI coming... just got to Kinko's today to finish the last couple of scans and wanted to start posting some of this stuff up.

OMG, I remember those! My friend did a service call in Brooklyn back in the 80's to get one of those working properly for a customer for his Apple ][ for the guy's business. I just remember helping with the antenna... the place was close the Elevated rail and that caused nothing but issues with the modem.

It still goes all the way through to ordering though

I have posted up the first batch of mechanical and schematics for the 1090 XL Expansion board and for the 1066 64K card, Z80 CP/M card and the 80 column card: These are all are original size, most of the sheets are 36" or more. I just reduced the dpi to 72 to make them more reasonable to download because at the 600dpi they were nearly 500mb's each... http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/8BITS/XL/xlperipherals/1090xl.html

Tough to say, it appears that BOTH the 1200 and 1201XL (the 1400XL less the modem/voice) were both in the works because Rev X8A the PBI version and Rev X10A are both within less than 2 weeks of each other and the X10A is what becomes the released 1200XL and it is VERY different from the Rev X8A version. Rev X8A was double sided, not 4 layer and also the PBI appears to be a right angle header, but an edge connector as the last 600/800/1400/1450 XL's are. Retooling the Case was only a matter of closing the PBI opening... I have done some further research and what I thought to be an early 1200XL design is in fact the 1201XL/1200XLS/1400XL proposed early design. I've been doing a lot of updating on the 1200XL section later, much more to follow with more images and info the various stages of design, the schematics and mechanicals. Also I'm scanning in more documentation on the Z800 as it was called early on. Another interesting note: The 1200 (Z800) and the Collette (single board 800) were both submitted to the FCC as the same time, so it seems Atari mightve still be planning to continue the 800 at one point. One document I just posted clearly states (the 64K version of the S-16 is the only version being released. Though technically in the 1000/1000x documents, they refer to the 64K S-16 as the S-64 and the 16k was supposed to be the S-16... Confused yet? Read up more here on the 1200XL http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/8BITS/1200xl/1200xl.html

Yes, there are several working 1450XLD's, I had two, just sent one over to Europe. I'm not sure of the XL display will have one there. I'm running the 400/800 display and I've already got a very large amount of stuff coming already.

HI, Just noticed this thread got bumped... sorry didn't realize I posted the wrong document at the time, I'm sure by now someone typed in everything, but here is the MAC file along with every other file in the Star Raiders recovery from the mainframe restores anyway... RAIDERS.zip

Hi Nezgar --- Yes, I only had the Source Code to the 850 handler posted. I just posted the Source Code to the 850 ROM and other sources as well, the Atari Museum 850 page has been updated. Click on 850 ROM Source Code and download the ZIP. I think you and everyone else will be pleasantly surprised. http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/8BITS/400800/peripherals/Communications/850/index.htm Curt

Thanks Mike. I got in some 2222s and some variable resistors and some breadboards. Spending tomorrow on the bench working the problem. Also Mark sent me a BIOS update to try out. Just got tied up with work and things for the house. But tomorrow I have an open day finally to work on the XM

If anyone needs any technical data on the 850, schematics, the source code to the 850 ROM, etc, its all up here: http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/8BITS/400800/peripherals/Communications/850/index.htm

Kiss your Atari box/vcs $$$ goodbye... Atari is in the middle of a shareholder buy back. That means one and only one thing: Atari needs to buy its outside shares back as it prepares to sell itself to another company and that company can opt during negotiations NOT to pickup any outstanding contracts and/or obligations. Meaning the French fry crime syndicate running Atari can walk away with a few million each in their pockets and leave the whole IGG mess in limbo. The new company just buys the IP and name and has nothing to do with the past deals. The $3mill scam is complete. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/atari-description-share-buyback-program-190000145.html

Is this still for sale?

The fact that it is also the very first release of the CTIA chip plot is also historical significant and great jumping point to start from.

1. I will complete the full inventory of Chip Plots I have in upper storage and make an excel spreasheet. 2. I am going to bring the POKEY and GTIA schematics to Kinko's this upcoming weekend to do high res scans so I can repost better ones up onto atarimuseum.com (also someone asked for the 1090 stuff, so I'll bring that too) and then I can see what the cost of scanning the layers of a 4' x 4' chip plot as the highest resolution setting will cost and I'll be able to let everyone know and we can put together from the excel sheet a priority list of what should be scanned and posted up first in line.