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Re: ATARI is crap!

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In article <n8mgrk$br8$1@news.albasani.net>, Ken Springer
<wordworks@greeleynet.com> wrote:
> On 1/31/16 5:24 PM, Your Name wrote:
> > In article <n8l631$630$1@news.albasani.net>, Ken Springer
> > <wordworks@greeleynet.com> wrote:
> >> On 1/30/16 11:38 PM, Your Name wrote:
> >>> In article <n8k5d1$6ug$1@news.albasani.net>, Ken Springer
> >>> <wordworks@greeleynet.com> wrote:
> >>>> On 1/30/16 6:06 PM, Ken Springer wrote:
> >>>>> On 1/30/16 5:39 PM, Your Name wrote:
> >>>>>> In article <n8jd9f$lhc$1@news.albasani.net>, Ken Springer
> >>>>>> <wordworks@greeleynet.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>> On 1/30/16 2:02 PM, Your Name wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> That crappy "keyboard" is probably one of the reasons we bought the
> >>>>>>>> VIC 20 instead.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I looked at the VIC 20, screen display was much better for the Atari
> >>>>>>> 400/800, so I went with the 800.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The quality of the screen display was partly governed by what you
> >>>>>> plugged the computer into - plugging it into a crappy old B/W TV is
> >>>>>> different to a then-modern-day colour TV.   :-)
> >>>>
> >>>> I wasn't referring to the quality of the output device, but the display
> >>>> resolution.  VIC 20 176 X 184  Atari 800 320 X 192
> >>>
> >>> Maybe, but plug the VIC20 into a good quality screen and it can look
> >>> better than the Atari plugged into a crap quality screen.  :-)
> >>
> >> Now, that's not fair!   LOL  Plug them into the same screen.  Of course,
> >> back then it was likely to be a TV, and the size of the TV also made a
> >> difference.
> >>
> >> When I bought my 800, I bought a 10" TV for the monitor.  Salesman
> >> thought I was nuts.  "Too small", he said.  It was great!.  Went back
> >> and told him how good it was, and talked him into trying it.  All of a
> >> sudden, all the display Atari systems had those TVs attached.
> >
> > Our VIC20 was originally plugged into the biggish (for the time) family
> > lounge room TV, but later we got a smaller one especially for it and
> > the later C64 (although also occasionally used to watch TV shows). I
> > can't remember what sizes they were though.
> >
> > Later at university and work I used the first Macs which were little 9"
> > screens monochrome. I used those for years in various Mac models.
> >
> > When I later got my 17" screen it seemed massive - I'm still using a
> > 17" CRT screen.  :-)
> 
> I've got 3 systems here with 19" CRTs, 1 dual boot XP/Vista. 1 PowerMac 
> 6400, 1 Hades 060 Atari clone.

I bought this PowerMac G3 brand new nearly 20 years ago and it has
outlived three 17" CRT displays, so far. The original Apple one died,
then the Samsung replacement died, and now I've got a Dell (exactly the
same as the previous Samsung except for the logo!) re-purposed from an
old Windoze PC that was thrown out.

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  Re: ATARI is crap! CharlieChaplin <andiko@web.de> - 2016-01-25 10:32 -0800
  Re: ATARI is crap! "Adelbert Affenstaat" <a@ff.e> - 2016-01-29 22:24 +0100
    Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-01-30 12:36 +1300
      Re: ATARI is crap! Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2016-01-30 08:08 -0700
        Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-01-31 10:02 +1300
          Re: ATARI is crap! Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2016-01-30 15:26 -0700
            Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-01-31 13:39 +1300
              Re: ATARI is crap! Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2016-01-30 18:06 -0700
                Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-01-31 17:49 +1300
                Re: ATARI is crap! Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2016-01-30 22:17 -0700
                Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-01-31 19:38 +1300
                Re: ATARI is crap! Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2016-01-31 07:35 -0700
                Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-02-01 13:24 +1300
                Re: ATARI is crap! Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2016-01-31 19:45 -0700
                Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-02-01 16:31 +1300
                Re: ATARI is crap! Clu <drclu@swbell.net> - 2016-02-05 10:49 -0600
                Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-02-06 09:57 +1300
    Re: ATARI is crap! Dombo <dombo@disposable.invalid> - 2016-01-31 21:56 +0100

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