Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!linus!alliant!lackey From: lackey@Alliant.COM (Stan Lackey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit Subject: Re: Daisy-chaining two Atari 8bits Message-ID: <1394@alliant.Alliant.COM> Date: 10 Mar 88 18:31:55 GMT References: <1988Mar3.231347.12961@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> Reply-To: lackey@alliant.UUCP (Stan Lackey) Organization: Alliant Computer Systems, Littleton, MA Lines: 13 About chaining two atari's to the same disk drive... I also have two (a 400 and a 65XE) and, playing two-man games on the two with separate TV's sounds real interesting. It would be good to be able to load each (in turn) from the same disk (I only have one as well). To do this, I would suggest just cutting the 5V line in one of the cables. On a different subject: I have been noticing hard disk drives available for IBM PC's in mail-order catalogs for as little as $199 for 10MB. It seems an interesting thing to do might be to adapt one of those to the atari. I don't have the slightest idea how to do it, but am an experienced hardware designer, and have done a lot of 6502 assem lang as well. Anybody want to team up? I live in eastern Mass, if that matters. -Stan