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1.70 Mhz 8-Bit Ataris Get 10 Mbit Ethernet
point writes "Thanks to Chris Martin, 8-bit Atari power users can now enjoy 10 Mbit Ethernet, something that the Commodore 64 crowd have been able to do for over a year now... Time to pick up that age-old flamewar? An Ethernet-enabled Atari port of the Contiki operating system has already been completed, and brings the Atari users telnet, e-mail, a web server and a web browser. Pictures and schematics for the Ethernet card, as well as screenshots of the system in action on an Atari 800 are available from the project's webpage."
It's the kind of thing we do. We aren't trying to get use out of it, we do it for the humor, and possibly to get on slashdot.
1.70? I think you mean 1.79 Mhz. Geez-us. :-P
that their website is not hosted on one of those. It would be a pity for all that hard work to go up in flames. (literally)
Quid festinatio swallonis est aetherfuga inonusti?
Africus aut Europaeus?
"If you have to ask why, you are not in the target audience"
Now you can have multi-player pong LAN parties.
Three words: Internet Star Raiders.
Wonder what will be next...
A) Atari: 1024 ST.
B) Tandy: Color Computer { 1,2 or 3 }. Use OS9 or MS Basic as OS.
C) SWTP SS50 bus computer.
D) Smoke Signal Broadcasting: Chiftan.
E) Coleco: Gamesystem.
F) Coleco: Adam { If you can keep it running ).
Actualy its not the final results but the knowledge to get it going at all. Be fun to try!
dust off my old Atari 800.
Retro cool here I come.
siggy played guitar
The Gnome people should take a look at it.
10Mbit ethernet on an Atari 800.. A single ping would almost DoS it..
We'll see a CERT alert on this for sure!
-- Jim.
-- If at first you don't succeed, lie!
Don't you guys get it!? This means we can have a beawouaoulf cluster of Ataris!!!1!
The unofficial
One day you guys will be all excited to see that someone has built a subspace carrier-frequency card for the PCI bus and ported a neural-interface OS to the PC.
even if the latest offering only added a tint control
:-)
I'd mod this up, but there's no "+1: Obscure Bloom County reference" option
Please donate your spare CPU cycles to help fight cancer and other diseases
Yeah, but apart from the sucky color, slow floppy drives, nasty printer, slow CPU, crippled 6502 assembly language, limited embedded BASIC, slow tape drives, and the occasional explosion, the C64 was a great machine.
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The more stories I see like this the more I realize hacking into the alien technology with the little laptop in the movie Independence Day really wasn't so silly after all... :)