Re: [NTLK] [OT] 25-Year-Old Atari Touch Tablet

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From: L.W. Brown
Subject: [NTLK] [OT] 25-Year-Old Atari Touch Tablet

no - it's not a tablet PC or even a Newt, but it's historic, old &
still cool...
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| Unboxing a 1984 Atari Peripheral, 25 Years Later |
| from the depreciation-appreciation dept. |
| posted by timothy on Tuesday January 20, @10:54 (Input Devices) |
| http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/20/1517251 |
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[0]Harry writes "When you come across a 1984 Atari Touch Tablet for sale
cheap--in the original, unopened box--it would be a crime against
computer history not to [1]buy it, open it, install it, and use it, and
to document the whole process with photos and commentary."

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     1.
http://technologizer.com/2009/01/19/ataris-1984-touch-tablet-a-retro-unb
oxing/
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LOL!! As a big time Atari user and one who uses an Atari 800 on a
regular basis I have to say... so what? :)

I have one of these. Kinda cool. There was a paint program, you could
make pictures with it. There was a time when I was a part of a
retrochallenge for a month where I was using only Atari computers, and
for a while I thought of making a early Newton device for taking notes
using this touch tablet and a Atari 400. Mind you it wasn't portable.
And the graphics resolution was a bit blocky so it was hard to read my
notes, so the experiment only went on for a day or so.

Now if you want REALLY amazing parallels to then in Atari-land and now,
let's talk about how the Atari SIO port was the early inspiration for
the current USB ports. ;) Now THAT is cool.

Doctor Clu

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Received on Thu Jan 22 08:59:11 2009