ATR 8000

[_The Doctor__]

but you keep telling us you have the original drives that wrote the disks... I don't understand? hook them up! make sure the heads are clean... read the disks...

[Kyle22]

IIRC, the ATR boot disk image on that site turned out to be bad.

[_The Doctor__]

um, but is it when connected to the proper terminal and not the Atari.... when I boot my compupro with the wrong terminal connected or incoorect termcap it looks like it's dead when it's not...

Edited November 10, 2017 by _The Doctor__

[Jeffrey Worley]

On 7/5/2011 at 6:50 PM, UNIXcoffee928 said:

Well, if someone could have afforded one of those boxes, that someone surely could have added any other additional equipment to the setup, too... lol.

 

As I had mentioned above, I never had one, and I was just explaining that it was a pretty useful & desirable piece of kit, based on its advertisements, specs, & reviews. I was under the impression that 80 columns functioned as expected, if you were using a secondary 80 column capable monochrome monitor (in the same fashion as the Bit-3 Fullview-80, which needed an additional monochrome monitor)... Can you explain more about the 80 column issues that you had? Is there a scan of the last revision's manual?

 

 

 

The ATR is a very good cp/m machine.  The 80-column mode on the Atari worked well enough when using a monochrome monitor.  I've used a fair number of CP/M boxes and ATR8000 compares favorably to any of them.

 

best,

 

Jeff

[Jeffrey Worley]

On 7/5/2011 at 1:01 AM, UNIXcoffee928 said:

It's not a wheel chock.

It would make a fair wheel chock.  Sturdy steel construction.

 

Best,

 

jeff