Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!lll-lcc!vecpyr!atari!neil From: neil@atari.UUcp (Neil Harris) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16 Subject: Re: ATARI NETWORK, PRINTER DRIVERS Message-ID: <286@atari.UUcp> Date: Mon, 19-May-86 14:43:54 EDT Article-I.D.: atari.286 Posted: Mon May 19 14:43:54 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 23-May-86 21:47:16 EDT References: <8605162336.AA23370@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Organization: Atari Corp/Mktg Lines: 17 In article <8605162336.AA23370@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, GEORGE_FRAJKOR@CARLETON.BITNET (GEORGE FRAJKOR) writes: > > DOES anybody know if someone is developing a networking or shared- > peripheral system for the STs? Seems to me they'd make darn good > classroom use computers (better and jsut as cheap as Apple, probably) if > Atari would take the education market seriously. Anything that would > enable 16 or so STs to share a common printer and hard disk or tap > into a mainframe would sure help. Computer Curriculum Corp. in Palo Alto has a gizmo to tie a roomful of ST's together around a central host. I don't know the details, but I have seen it in use and it does work. They have some nice CAI programs that use the ST as a terminal, too. --->Neil @ Atari ...lll-crg!vecpyr!atari!neil