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Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?


Bob Retelle <bobr1@provide.net>

: >I'm not subscribing to csa8bit to receive all those info I don't want to
: >read.

: Ignore it, it'll go away eventually.

I surely hope so...

: It actually DOES have relevance to the Atari 8-bit world,

Well, *some* msg's in the thread have a little bit Atari 8-bit related
stuff in them.  Unfortunately, many of them don't have any at all (notice
all the crosspost info).  The topic is now more about how much memory you
can control with an 68xxx CPU, which has absolutely nothing to do with an
8-bit Atari...


: I get nostalgic every time I think about spending $550 for a floppy
: disk drive.

Time hasn't changed.  The 1050 was state of the art in those days.  About
the same when you go out to buy a good DVD rewriter for the Wintels.  Same
price, same state of the art, and virtually no value when it's 15 years
old.  Some people will get nostalgic at the time it hasn't any value
anymore, others may still use it, like I use my 1050 drive right now...

I don't get nostalgic when I use my Atari 130XE to program some things or
what, or take a look at my BBS.  This is cause my systems are used about
every day or so.  I get more nostalgic when joining an Atari 8-bit meeting,
with a room full of 8-bitters that are actually used and not owned by
people who keep them just for nostalgic reasons and use another computer to
emulate the thing.

I don't say it's wrong to collect for nostalgic reasons or use an emulator.
 It's just that about every topic is about emulators and .ATR images, about
how to convert them,  how to format them, or how to build a "better" new
computer, how to emulate this, how to emulate that, etc.  What's wrong with
the original Atari 8-bit hardware?  Many people seem to forget there was a
thing *before* the emulators, namely a real computer...

Don't get me wrong.  I also have Pentiums laying around, and am using
A.P.E. to transfer ATR images if I need to, but rather talk about the 8-bit
side of the SIO2PC interface in stead of the other end of the cable...

My $0.02


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