Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!dptg!mtuni!psu
From: psu@mtuni.ATT.COM (Paul Siu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: XEP80's
Summary: 65XE was lacking parallel port
Message-ID: <2857@mtuni.ATT.COM>
Date: 7 Mar 90 05:38:10 GMT
References: <297@pallas.athenanet.com> <27559@cup.portal.com> <27570@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: psu@mtuni.ATT.COM (Paul Siu)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Middletown, NJ, USA
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Atari did not make XEP80 connect to the joystick port because they wanted to be
compatible with the old Atari, they did it because their 65XE did not have a
parallel expansion port, neither did the XEGS.  Otherwise, we might have been
seeing good, fast 80-col now.