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From: apratt@atari.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Upgrading a 1040 to 4 Megs (really laser printer)
Message-ID: <557@atari.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Feb-87 15:23:28 EST
Article-I.D.: atari.557
Posted: Tue Feb 10 15:23:28 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Feb-87 07:18:05 EST
References: <8702051433.AA26615@inria.UUCP> <4271@utah-cs.UUCP>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
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Summary: Laser printer not an expansion card

In article <4271@utah-cs.UUCP>, atwell@utah-cs.UUCP (Bart L. Atwell) writes:
> What about upgrading the current ST's to accept the expansion peripherals
> that will be available on the Mega's.  It seems like there may be a lot 
> of yet to be developed peripherals that we will miss out on unless something
> is done. (like the Atari Laserprinter, for example)
> 
> Bart

The Atari laser printer will not be an expansion card which goes into
the Mega case.  It will be a device which plugs into the DMA port at
the back of all ST products.  You will be able to use both a hard disk
and a laser printer because either (A) one or the other will have a DMA
IN and a DMA OUT port (like MIDI) or (B) there will be a two-headed
DMA cable for this purpose.

Currently on the whiteboard is a floating-point board which IS an
expansion card, but that's the only thing I know of, and I think you
might be able to piggyback the chip to an existing ST without too much
trouble.

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