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boofar 10 days ago | parent | on: What's so great about the Atari ST?
A question I keep asking myself to this day.
(Ouch! Kidding!)
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- bmonkey325 9 days ago
  Despite my love of Atari 8-bits. Still code one for fun. I never owned an ST. But a twist of fate my university and its hatred of IBM put me on a Macintosh XL running AU/X.
  I should have had an Amiga since Jay Miner and the team that made the Atari b-bit great went into the Amiga.
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  - seclorum 1 day ago
    I had an 8-bit (Oric-1) for my first computer, and I definitely lusted after a bigger machine - the Atari ST - for a few years in my teens, but circumstances happened (I got a modem wired up to the Oric) and I got access to much bigger metal, and professionally ended up with a MIPS Magnum pizzabox, a couple hazeltines, and a brand new PC on my desk by 1988, so I quite skipped the Atari habit.,,
    But I sure would like to have one now! I once found one for 50eu in a second-hand shop in The Hague, complete with disks and monitor, which I drunkenly convinced a colleague to get, on a whim/dare, thinking we'd just have fun with it for a weekend .. but he managed to get quite hooked with its MIDI port in particular, so I'm on the hunt for another ..
    In any case, I have most of the other 8-bit machines in my collection these days (its big), including an Enterprise 128, which I really should hack on a litlte more often, since I seriously lusted for this system too, Back In The Day™ ..
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boofar 60 days ago | parent | on: Roll Call!
I'm gonna keep lurking, but I do enjoy this site! Great resource for retro stuff without the ads and clickbaity stuff one might encounter elsewhere.
- jgrahamc 60 days ago
  Lurk as much as you want!
  - ddingus 56 days ago
    Seconded
boofar 60 days ago | parent | on: Mandelbrot Set renderer for MSDOS
Nice, source available and made with native DOS tools.
boofar 291 days ago | parent | on: Thou shalt follow these Vintage Computing Commandm...
God.
boofar 293 days ago | parent | on: Symbolics Lisp Machine Museum
These machines fascinate me. Very interesting user interface.