XPost: comp.sys.cbm, comp.sys.atari.8bit   
   From: bill@newbreedsoftware.com   
      
   In comp.sys.atari.8bit Matt J. McCullar  wrote:   
   > I never owned an Atari home computer simply because they were so expensive   
   > at the time.  And I wasn't that good at typing out demo BASIC programs on   
   > them on store displays.   
      
   I got my brother's Timex Sinclair 1000 when he got a C=64, and played on   
   both a little.  At Sears(?) one day, I tried to program a little program   
   in BASIC on an Atari 800XL or 600XL, and because I didn't know about the   
   string restriction (you need to DIMension them first), the program didn't   
   run, so I thought "fooey!"   
      
   Then for Christmas (or was it birthday?) I got a 1200XL.  Most awesomest   
   machine ever.  Except that the Rev. B BASIC cart. I had ate my most-excellent   
   Pac-Man clone. :^(   
      
   An 800XL I picked up years later is currently hooked up in the drawer of our   
   TV stand, with an SIO2SD connected to it, and a bunch of random game and   
   demo disk images loaded onto the SD card.  Sweet and self-contained. ;)   
      
   (And above that are the Jaguar, Dreamcast, Atari 7800 and Sony PS2)   
      
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