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Kay Savetz

Just published: my interview with Nick Kennedy, the creator of SIO2PC, the 1989 hardware-software combo that allowed Atari 8-bit computer users to use a PC as a peripheral. In 1989, this was unprecedented, a new way to connect the little Atari to the bigger world, to the (relatively) massive storage and speed of a computer running PC-DOS. For the first time, Ataris could use a PC as storage, RAM disk, and printer. Nick also created the .ATR file format, which quickly became the standard for using virtual floppy disks on Atari emulators.

Video version: https://youtu.be/NZcxUHCJP4I
Audio: https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-444-nick-kennedy-sio2pc-and-atr
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Pavel Machek

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@savetz I had Atari 800XL booting off 386, and then connecting back to it as a terminal for two-briefcases computer. Advantage was that atari protocols were extremely simple.
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