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From: jwt@atari.UUCP (Jim Tittsler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: SX212 info sought
Message-ID: <870@atari.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-Oct-87 21:01:16 EDT
Article-I.D.: atari.870
Posted: Tue Oct 13 21:01:16 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 15-Oct-87 20:58:41 EDT
References: <15362@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale, CA
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Keywords: help
Summary: SX212 for Atari 8-bit

In article <15362@topaz.rutgers.edu>, wilmott@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ray Wilmott) writes:
> Hello all. Rumour has it in these parts that the SX212 will
> be on stores shelves very soon (if it isn't already!).
Yes, the modem is already being sold (at least at dealers here in Northern
California).

> 1) Can you or can you not connect the SX212 directly to the 8-bit
>    without an interface?
Yes.  The SX212 has an Atari SIO connector on its rear panel.  It will work
with an R-verter type handler that is available on Compuserve.

> 2) About connecting to the 8-bit, does it come packaged with
>    the necessary cable and term program (I'd heard something
>    about a new version of Express?), or do you have to hunt
>    them down seperately?
No.  SX-Express (based on the older 850-Express) will be offered separately.
An SIO cable will be packaged with that program.  SX-Express is currently in
software test.

> 3) ...I would like to know *for sure* if Chameleon will work with it or not.
At the moment, the only way you could be *sure* that it will work with
Chameleon would be to use it connected to an 850 the way people have been
using Hayes compatible modems for years.

Jim Tittsler, Atari Corp.   {ames, sun, imagen, pyramid}!atari!jwt