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Great Hierophant

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Just Purchased Atari 800, Advice Needed

Wed Aug 24, 2011 6:43 PM

At a going out of business or moving thrift shop I purchased an Atari 800 today with an SIO cable, an 810 Disk Drive and a 1050 Disk Drive. No software came with it. It turns on and I get to the memo pad. Now come the issues :

The keyboard seems to work perfectly except for the spacebar. The stability bar is held in place by these two thin metal brackets and my machine is missing one of them. Can anyone inform me where I can obtain a spare other than a broken 800?

I got two power bricks with them, a CO14319 and a CO17945. Obviously, the 50W CO17945 works with any of the above, but will the CO14319 18.5W work with the computer or either drive?

I have two vintage IBM PC systems with double density 5.25" IBM PC compatible disk drives. Is there a program I can use to write disk images to disks so that they would be readable in one of those drives mentioned above?