Re: ATARI is crap!

From	Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.atari.8bit, comp.sys.cbm
Subject	Re: ATARI is crap!
Date	2016-01-31 19:38 +1300
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID	<310120161938022687%YourName@YourISP.com> (permalink)
References	(4 earlier) <310120161002140418%YourName@YourISP.com> <n8jd9f$lhc$1@news.albasani.net> <310120161339439028%YourName@YourISP.com> <n8jmki$6t1$1@news.albasani.net> <n8k5d1$6ug$1@news.albasani.net>

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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.  :-)

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    Re: ATARI is crap! Trevor <trevor.removethispart@holyoak.com> - 2016-01-22 12:40 -0700
  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
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