Date   : Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:27:01 +0000
From   : Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...>
Subject: Re: Atom 'word pack' ROM?

Dave Moore wrote:
>> Anyone know what this is/was? 
>> The ROMs have been overwritten (now scribbled in pen 
>> as being Econet ROMs) so I can't just look at the
>> contents - 'word pack' isn't something I've come 
>> across before, though. The ROM labels are properly 
>> printed, as though it was a proper product rather
>> than a homebrew bit of software.
> 
> According to this pricelist, it was an official
> Acornsoft product:
> http://www.stairwaytohell.com/atom/adverts/PL_ComputersForAll.png
> 

Interesting!

I'm curious about the 128K RAM board too - unless they mean kbits rather than 
kbytes? (mind you, even then the stock maxed-out Atom could only take what, 
12KB of memory, and 128Kbit is 16KB).

OK, so there was the System RAM board and you could hang one of those off the 
Atom's bus, but even that was 64KB maximum (and, IIRC, non-paged, so adding a 
second would get you nowhere)

I've never heard of an Atom-specific RAM expansion board before, though.

Shame there's no date on the price list - it doesn't list the BBC BASIC board, 
or the Econet board, but does list the colour board which is odd - I thought 
Acorn had Econet up and running on them almost immediately as Atoms were used 
for the early Econet trials.

cheers

Jules

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