[NTLK] (OT) on the mention of Atari...

[Doctor Clu]

On Sep 22, 2010, at 6:08 PM, Tim wrote:

> Other Atari users? Wow!
> When I was @8-9 I got to my dad's for weekend visitation and he had  
> this Atari 800 waiting for me. His buddy was a programmer at Atari  
> and sent him his old machine, it had some weird looking RAM carts  
> in it, I suspect it was a developer model. It came with 2 stacks of  
> floppies with games, and this system lasted me many years of fun. I  
> still have it. A stranger that was ordering Magic cards from me in  
> the mid90s sent me 2 new floppy drives and some other goods for  
> free, just for talking to him (I reciprocated with a package of  
> awesome cards for his green deck). The POKEY went out and into  
> storage it went. I bought a spare for $5 at a pawn shop in 2000 and  
> that's in storage too.
> Flash forward to last Monday, I get to work (Record store). And at  
> my desk is an old ThinkPad and a Macintosh Portable bag. Boss is  
> like "Rodney dropped those off for you, a present". I was like "oh  
> great, I have to recell a Portable 6v battery, great..". 6 hours  
> later I finally unzip the bag and discover it wasn't an Apple  
> inside, but an Atari STacy II. I'd never even heard of it! It  
> boots, but I am unfamiliar with GEM, so I haven't done much with  
> this. Rodney was a big name in the 80s Chicago House Music scene  
> and there are early versions of Cubase installed and something that  
> I suspect is a external programmer for Roland drum machines.
> I'm 37 now.

Wow a STacy, that is pretty cool.

At home I recently set up my Atari 400 again, and I have a few 800's  
but the 400 was the main machine in high school.

My favorite tinker machines.. Atari 400 (and the other Atari game  
systems) Dreamcast, and while on the road, the Newton.  :)