Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!oberon!nunki.usc.edu!castor.usc.edu!rjung From: rjung@castor.usc.edu (Robert Jung) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit Subject: Re: Daisy-chaining two Atari 8bits Message-ID: <442@nunki.usc.edu> Date: 10 Mar 88 16:58:56 GMT References: <1988Mar3.231347.12961@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> Sender: news@nunki.usc.edu Reply-To: rjung@castor.usc.edu (Robert Jung) Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 25 Summary: Powering up simultaneously? In article bk0h+@andrew.cmu.edu (Brett Kuehner) writes: > (Lotsa stuff about hooking two Ataris to one disk drive) > >... Also, try to turn them on simultaneously, to avoid undue >strain on a single power supply. Not that I know anything about the subject (I'm queasy about frying my hardware), but wouldn't it make more sense to make SURE you don't turn on both computers simultaneously? I would think that the proper way to do this was to turn on Computer A, let it load DOS, then when that's done, turn on computer B, and let it load DOS... By the way, wasn't there a company that makes a multicomputer/pherepheral switching box for the Ataris, to handle situations like this (Ten Ataris, running all at once and sharing hard drives, printers, etc.)? --R.J. B-) ______________________________________________________________________________ Bitnet: rjung@castor.usc.edu "Who needs an Amiga?" = == = = == = Power WithOUT the Price = == = ===== == ===== Just because it's 8-bits doesn't make it obsolete. ==== == ====