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From: frankh@hpnmdla.HP.COM (Frank Hamlin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Happy computers
Message-ID: <800009@hpnmdla.HP.COM>
Date: 27 Feb 91 16:53:53 GMT
References: <1991Feb26.161406.18396@ncsu.edu>
Organization: HP Network Measurements Div, Santa Rosa, CA
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>    Does anyone have any idea what has become of Happy computers?  I have a
>    Happy 1050 and I'm looking for the source code to their software (the
>    Warp Speed stuff) so I can code up some good hacks to access the weird
>    areas of the disk that weren't meant to be touched by user hands (such
>    as sector headers, sector order on each track, etc.).  I called Happy a
>    few years ago and they wouldn't tell me jack even though I was a
>    registered user (and in fact had bought my Happy mod directly from them,
>    not a dealer).  

A couple of year ago you could get the software to make your Happy work
like an Archiever.  The Archiever allows you to see what has been done
to the disk, and to modify it.  You might try and get a Copy of that
software.