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From: smb@cs.purdue.EDU (Scott Ballew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Parallel Port
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Date: 3 Mar 90 22:12:01 GMT
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In article <49700013@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> pm16579@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
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>   I don't think any 3rd party 
>  manufacturers have taken advantage of it, though. 
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>                                                  Paulito Mendoza

I beg to differ!  Sitting behind my 800xl at home is ICD's MIO board.  This
nifty little gadget (which I believe is still sold and supported by ICD)
provides 256k (or 1Meg) of ram for use as BOOTABLE ramdrive(s),
printer buffers, etc. as well as a SCSI/SASI disk port, RS232C serial port
(looks just like R1: on the 850), Centronics parallel printer port (again,
just like on the 850) and  has a place for putting in ICD's 80 column board
(I don't have this :-( ).  Also, although the name escapes me, there
is another company that put out a hard disk system that ran from the
parallel port.

Scott Ballew
Purdue University Department of Computer Sciences