How quickly times have changed

blacklab · Post by **blacklab** » Wed Jun 22, 2011 8:33 pm

I remember wasting a little time on some of these. I could not afford to buy one so I went to work at a store that sold games. I explained to the boss I need one at home to learn how to use it so I could sell them. Dammed if he didn't buy it.

Started with a 400, then moved to an 800 then a 1200XL. In some ways they were ahead of most other computers at the time. I was able to buy computers at 10% over cost so I bought a couple. Can't remember what I paid for them, but I remember paying $1200 for a 10 Meg HD. At the time I figured 10 Megs would last me the rest of my life.

http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/cdn/slideshow/Atari_slideshow/

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Wed Jun 22, 2011 8:44 pm

Hah..I had the Atari 400 also...and the cassette deck.

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Wed Jun 22, 2011 8:51 pm

I still have my 2600...lost a lot of time playing Adventure

RoundEye · Post by **RoundEye** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 7:06 am

blacklab wrote:I remember wasting a little time on some of these. I could not afford to buy one so I went to work at a store that sold games. I explained to the boss I need one at home to learn how to use it so I could sell them. Dammed if he didn't buy it.

Started with a 400, then moved to an 800 then a 1200XL. In some ways they were ahead of most other computers at the time. I was able to buy computers at 10% over cost so I bought a couple. Can't remember what I paid for them, but I remember paying $1200 for a 10 Meg HD. At the time I figured 10 Megs would last me the rest of my life.

http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/cdn/slideshow/Atari_slideshow/

The hurricane took away my Atari2600 and most games. I have a three terabyte RAID5 which I hope will last me for awhile.

Mad_Haggis · Post by **Mad_Haggis** » Wed Jun 29, 2011 12:48 am

Never owned a 386, but when i gotz a 486, the mobo had 8 slots for ram. 4 x 1 meg...to play doom
add 4x0.25 more for network doom. Still have that as well