Hello! I'm not an expert in the Atari realm but I am reasonably well versed in R6502 assembler and its relatives, and can advise on the guts, read the internals for the basic unit. The disk drives? I've got a good idea the way most 5.25 ones work. But did anyone see a wooly mammoth wandering around the grounds on Saturday? Or was it just me. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 5:08 PM Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

I worked with Andy (from DC, hope I got that correct) on a couple of his Atari drive (1050 and XF551). The Atari XF551 is a 5 1/4" 40 track drive. We could access it but not read or write to the drive. Could be the head, could be the driver, could be alignment. But this was beyond me with what we had available. Good new is we managed to get a troublesome 1050 work but I'm not sure how (VooDoo).

Anyways, Andy was supposed to meet with someone. But I don't know who. I did give him some useful tips as I have A8's (Atari 8-bits).

So anyone know of our local Atari A8 experts in the NJ area?

-- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry kd2zrq@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies KD2ZRQ

He ran after the Jedi Knight and after the Wookiee somehow he prevented the defenestration of the individual that the two were after. The Clone Wars an unpublished memoir written by one Doctor John Smith