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Date: Tue, 24-Feb-87 11:02:00 EST
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Have considered getting an Avatex modem, but since I can borrow the US
Robiotics indefinitely have not felt the need.  Will probably get around doing
it eventually.  Right now, my $ are going to my first hobby -- model
railroading.  Which brings me to a question:  do you happen to know any model
railroaders who are also good Atari programmers (in any langauage, but
preferrably BASIC XE)?  Am trying to get a program converted from TRS-80 BASIC
for several years and have not been able to get it to work.  Would like to have
someone of like interests willing to  help write a program to do the same thing
from scratch.  Essentially it is a program to setup waybills and generate
traffic for prototype operation of a model railroad layout.  Requires a large
data base for all industries, cars, commodities, etc. and thus would be ideal
to utilize the 130XE extra memory (or better yet a 256K upgrade).  The NMRA
(National Model Railroad Association) does have a computer SIG, however, most
that I have been able to discern is that they are IBM/TRS80/Commodore
programmers -- Atari and model railroading seem to have not come together.
Why, I do not know, I think we have as much capabilities as anything short of
the IBM's and since I use an IBM XT at work, I often wonder about that.  I
still maintain that there are a lot of things that my Atari 8bitters can do or
are set up to do, that I have to get additional boards, set dip switches, etc.
on the damn IBM to get the same capability.  Still, being able to boothe 130XE,
suspect that you can not set up the hard disk to AUTORUN.SYS, however.

--Bill--

(Would also be nice if the 8 bitters could "AUTOEXEC.BAT" -- .BAT files are
good IBM invention.  I suspect that if I was more getting skilled, I could
probably do the same thing with the AUTORUN.SYS file.)