Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mcnc.mcnc.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!ravi
From: ravi@mcnc.UUCP (Ravi Subrahmanyan)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari
Subject: Re: Atari Prototypes
Message-ID: <1013@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 24-Nov-85 21:27:50 EST
Article-I.D.: mcnc.1013
Posted: Sun Nov 24 21:27:50 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 26-Nov-85 20:16:47 EST
References: <628@tekigm.UUCP>
Reply-To: ravi@mcnc.UUCP (Ravi Subrahmanyan)
Distribution: net
Organization: Microelectronics Center of NC; RTP, NC
Lines: 48
Summary: 

[shlurp......]

>From: philabs!cmcl2!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!tektronix!tekig5!tekigm!aegroup Wed Nov 20 11:17:04 
>From: aegroup@tekigm.UUCP (Dennis Ward)
>Subject: Atari Prototypes
>Does anyone own or have seen any of the following announced Atari computers
>(etc...)
>The model numbers that I am interested in more information in and possibly
>	 1450XLD
>	 1600XL
>	 CP/M Module
>	 1090XL Expansion Box
>
>catalogs, etc. and there is some evidence that both of these saw limited
    				-------------------------------------------
>production.  I have not been able to find out to much about the 1600XL, but
 -----------

>incompete stuffing of components) with no documentation.  Sear's apparently did
  							------------------------
>sell some of the CP/M modules but how many?  (Sear's did catalog both the
 -------------------------------------------

I don't think any of these things happened..  None of these items 
ever made it to the market;  the 1450 series never 
made it to production, and the CP/M module was dropped while still on
the drawing boards because  1) Atari determined that the market was small
and 2) the ATR8000  and one other CP/M attachment were already out (I got
this info from Atari long long ago..)  Re. the 1600XL, I've actually 
only heard one other reference to it before (on SIG-ATARI); it was 
slated to follow the 1400's but I don't think it got past the idea 
stage either.  The 1090XL expansion box was one of 
the attachments lined up for the XL series, but apparently died along
with the 1400 and 1450 when Atari (Inc.) finally went down the tubes.

All in all, it seems like it may have been a good thing after all...
The old Atari was trying to fire up a new product line that was not
significantly different from the old machines, and were based on 
processors that were all but obsolete, and certainly would have been
by now, even if they weren't in late 83, considering that the Mac came
out in early '84.  (No flames please; I still use my 1200XL and I'm
not questioning the continued utility of the 8 bitters, only the
currency of their designs).

					-ravi 
					{ucbvax,decvax}!mcnc!ravi

--------------------------------------------------------------------