ATR 8000

[sniperstorm]

What is a ATR8000 And what does it do??? And does anyone want one?

[a8isa1]

The ATR8000 is a multiple I/O interface for the A8. It connects to the SIO port. Has 1 serial port, 1 printer interface w/ 16K or 64K buffer (depending on model), and can control 4 industry standard floppy drives which are connected externally to the unit.

 

Internally ATR8000 is a full fledged 4Mhz Z80 computer. The 64K model can run the CP/M operating system. In this mode the the Atari normally acts as the console but a real RS-232 terminal can also be used.

 

- Steve Sheppard

Edited September 25, 2006 by a8isa1

[ataridano]

I'd take one!

 

-Dan

[+warerat]

It could also take a 8088-based daughter card (Co-Power88) that you can "run" PC programs on. The compatibility was pretty limited, but you could at least boot older versions of MS-DOS on it. The other thing you could use it for was to allocate the memory on the card as a ramdisk for the CP/M side.

 

It's a pretty neat little box for its time.