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From: ain1496e@merrimack.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Parallel Port
Message-ID: <18667.25f17d42@merrimack.edu>
Date: 4 Mar 90 20:40:33 GMT
References: <49700013@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> <9903@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Organization: Merrimack College, No. Andover, MA
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In article <9903@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>, smb@cs.purdue.EDU (Scott Ballew) writes:
> In article <49700013@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> pm16579@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>>
>>
>>
>>   I don't think any 3rd party 
>>  manufacturers have taken advantage of it, though. 
>>
>>                                                  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.
> 
         The other company is Supra, I have a Supra Hard Disk Interface
attached to the port.  However Supra no longer supports its, they sold the
rights to the product to another company.  I dont know the name of it off hand.