AgedAtari

This is my original ATR8000 which was never used for anything else except this Atari (and maybe our Atari 400)! I think we need to check everything inside is still seated well and then go from there. I remember going to the Atari club meetings with my dad and the ATR8000 back then was still a big deal. I think this was before Atari had floppy drives (we had an Atari 400 first ... my memory is fuzzy about any details though).This is my original ATR8000 which was never used for anything else except this Atari! I think we need to check everything inside is still seated well and then go from there. I remember going to the Atari club meetings with my dad and the ATR8000 back then was still a big deal. I think this was before Atari had floppy drives (we had an Atari 400 first ... my memory is fuzzy about any details though).

Also in Bay Area trying to get my childhood ATR8000 working ... stupid COVID. Splatm4n did you get yours to work?

Apologies for muddying the waters. I am trying one at a time, they are not chained together in any way. The problem with the tape drive is a flat spot (or divot) on the pinch roller. We have that disassembled now, but it seems difficult to source the rubber part. The SIO port on the Atari 800 seems to be fine and was issuing commands to the tape drive. I don't own any other peripherals, just the tape drive and the ATR8000 with the floppy drives.

Shoot, well, talking to myself. I found this on a German page (also I was trying an LPRINT to test, which was suggested on this forum somewhere): - Error 140 (frame bit error) means that something is wrong with the expected stop or start bit. The error can occur when the data transfer speed does not match the expected one. However, it can also occur in the event of a short circuit on the data line (Atari Computer: D_IN), in which case the expected stop bit never comes. If you boot an Atari while D_IN is pulled to ground, you can hear a significantly different SIO noise than when no device is connected As a result, there might be something wrong with the replacement CPU. Did you actually have to load an ATR8000 driver to use drives and printers on the ATR8000? I mean no ... Have you ever connected a floppy disk drive to the ATR8000 and tested disk access? I also can't get the tape drive to work (newer 410, so far replaced the 4 belts). I have a box full of childhood tapes and 4 holders of floppies, so part of me just really wants to see my childhood. I'm trying to get this working so I can give it to my brother / nephews for another generation to enjoy. I am unexpectedly seeing him soon so trying to get this done in the next two weeks which seems futile at the moment. Anyway, back to the floppies -- I'll try sticking one in but I'm afraid it might eat it or something. The floppy drives are making all sorts of crazy sounds.

Hi, totally new here, apologies if I'm doing this wrong. I'm getting my childhood system (ATARI 800) back online (or trying). It's been on a shelf since the 1980s. I bought an SIO cable from vintagecomputercenter (hopefully that was an ok move) for some reason we couldn't find ours. When I plug in the ATR8000 (with the two floppies not attached for now) and do an LPRINT I get "error 140" which from googling doesn't sound like a good one. Is this a rabbit hole worth trying to go down to fix? I tried searching a bit for an answer and it sounded like maybe chips could need replacing (?!). I don't know, I'm new to this effort as well so please forgive cluelessness. Thanks!