Enhanced Cartridge Interface

Parallel Bus Interface (above) and Enhanced Cartridge Interface (below, with cartridge socket).

European 800XL with Parallel Bus Interface visible (above, with cover removed) and 130XE with Enhanced Cartridge Interface (below).

The Enhanced Cartridge Interface or ECI was a 14-pin extension to the cartridge slot on Atari 8-bit XE computers. This allowed external devices access to the system's data and bus lines. It was functionally compatible with the Parallel Bus Interface (PBI) on the XL computers.

The ECI was found on the 65XE (European version), the 130XE and the 800XE.

Devices

• Black Box - The Black Box by CSS hooks up to either PBI or ECI connection. Featured a SCSI interface, a serial port, parallel port, floppy drive interface and a built-in menu system.
• Karin Maxi, a parallel floppy disk drive.
• KMK/JŻ IDE (aka IDEa), an ATA host adapter ([1])

See also

• Parallel Bus Interface

References

• Chadwick, Ian (1985). Mapping the Atari Revised Edition. COMPUTE! Publications, Inc. ISBN 0-87455-004-1. [2]