Atari goodies
The Australian music group, Icehouse, uses Atari ST microcomputers and modems in developing their music. The members live in different parts of the country and use modems to send copies of songs to and from each other. A member of the Icehouse, Simon Lloyd, keyboardist and saxophonist, was at the Sydney PC Show recently demonstrating the recording and performance of a complete arrangement using an Atari ST and a Yamaha Midi saxophone. The chairman of Atari, Mr Jack Tramiel, was at the show. Among the goodies on the Atari stand were a parallel transputer work station; a pocket-size PC clone with a full QWERY keyboard and eight-line display, all powered by two AA batteries; the GEM-based Atari Robokit, which allows users to control robot models, monitoring feedback sensors; and an Atari CD-ROM drive.
The Robokit is an interface board that links through the ST cartridge port for direct connection to the robotic device. Coming software add-ons for the kit include a neural network; a vision kit using infrared, sound or movement detection; and a speech kit.
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Press, 4 April 1989, Page 35
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