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EssexMame:
I have absolutely no recollection of the Atari computers at all. Absolutely no-one I knew had one. It was all BBC/Electron/C64/Spectrum for me, pehaps a Vic20 or a Dragon for the weirdos. I'm in the UK, were these Atari computers predominantly/only US? The console (VCS/2600) I have vague/younger memories of but Atari computers? Nope

ark_ader:

--- Quote from: EssexMame on May 09, 2014, 04:59:59 am ---I have absolutely no recollection of the Atari computers at all. Absolutely no-one I knew had one. It was all BBC/Electron/C64/Spectrum for me, pehaps a Vic20 or a Dragon for the weirdos. I'm in the UK, were these Atari computers predominantly/only US? The console (VCS/2600) I have vague/younger memories of but Atari computers? Nope

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Yes.  I only got one in the UK, as I had to sell my 400 before moving as it was ntsc and not pal.  All my mates told me to return it and get an electron, as we had bbc b computers at school.  Nobody at school where I was at in the UK had an atari xl.

lol Dragon 32, the tantung einstein, atom, and the cpc.  Remember the oric?

Ravenger:
The Atari tape drives were very slow and unreliable. They were actually stereo with one channel for the data, and the other channel for audio, so music or speech could be played while the tape loaded. Of course this made them way more susceptible to tape alignment problems than the mono systems used by the C64 and other home computers.

The floppy disk drives were very fast compared to the C64 drives, and very popular in the US.  Many of the best games only came on floppy.

In the UK there was more of a tape culture (due to the expense of disk drives) but owning a floppy drive was essential for dedicated Atari fans.

 

wp34:

--- Quote from: Ravenger on May 09, 2014, 09:11:06 am ---The Atari tape drives were very slow and unreliable. They were actually stereo with one channel for the data, and the other channel for audio, so music or speech could be played while the tape loaded. Of course this made them way more susceptible to tape alignment problems than the mono systems used by the C64 and other home computers.

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Interesting.  I did not know that. 

eds1275:
When is your atari game night? I'm working a graveyard shift tonight, gonna sleep into the afternoon so I can stay up late tonight which is my c64 night. For my birthday this year someone's girlfriend gave me a c64 joystick... unfortunately I don't have a way to interface it to my computer but I might wire it up for next time.

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