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|  Message 764  |
|  Daniel to Ralf Wissing  |
|  Re: My Classic Computer..  |
|  28 Apr 20 16:33:00  |
 TZUTC: -0700 MSGID: 702.fido_classicc@1:340/7 230e35fb REPLY: 2:240/8001 426474bf PID: Synchronet 3.18a-Win32 Apr 25 2020 MSC 1925 TID: SBBSecho 3.10-Win32 r3.160 Apr 25 2020 MSC 1925 CHRS: ASCII 1 -=> Ralf Wissing wrote to Daniel <=- RW> Since i recovered the Atari 520 ST (4 MB RAM, now online via PiModem) RW> from my dads office a few weeks ago i notice that i spend more and more RW> time using the old machine for tasks i would normally do on a modern RW> computer. I think the singletasking in combination with the great sharp RW> and contrast rich b/w graphics make it to the perfect typewriter / RW> office-workhorse. The perfect tool for people like me who are experts RW> in procrastination ;-) I didn't know it had so much ram. So I just looked it up and yeah, you expanded it to max ram. Cool. YOu said balck and white but the wikipedia article says the monochrome monitor was a moneysaver, and that it came with a color monitor. Any thought of getting an old color monitor for it? I like my trs-80 laptop. And, the tandy community has collected all magazine articles and BBS files from the era and store it on teh website. One of my favorite classics is lunar lander. I have three of them now that I transcribed in basic. Have you discovered atariage forum yet? Forum: https://atariage.com/forums/ Archives: https://www.atariarchives.org/ ... Visit me at: gopher://gcpp.world --- MultiMail/Linux v0.49 * Origin: Digital Distortion: digdist.synchro.net (1:340/7) SEEN-BY: 1/120 123 14/5 6 15/0 18/0 200 19/36 90/1 106/201 116/18 SEEN-BY: 116/116 120/331 340 601 123/0 25 50 115 120 140 150 170 755 SEEN-BY: 128/2 135/300 153/7715 154/10 50 218/700 222/2 226/16 30 SEEN-BY: 227/114 229/101 426 452 664 981 1014 230/150 152 240/1120 SEEN-BY: 240/5832 249/1 206 317 400 250/1 261/38 100 266/512 267/155 SEEN-BY: 275/100 282/1031 1056 291/100 111 298/26 300/4 5 6 317/3 SEEN-BY: 320/119 219 322/757 340/0 7 200 201 202 400 800 341/66 342/13 SEEN-BY: 342/200 396/45 60 633/280 640/1321 712/848 801/161 189 2320/105 SEEN-BY: 3634/0 12 15 24 27 50 119 5020/1042 5053/58 PATH: 340/7 400 261/38 3634/12 154/10 229/426 |
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