Emulation or the real thing?

From: D. Peschel <dpeschel_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Tue Oct 20 17:43:50 1998

> On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, D. Peschel wrote:
> > (Actually the 800 is nice but the 400, XL, and XE machines have lousy key-
> > boards.)
>
> Bite your tongue! The 1200XL had the nicest keyboard of the lot!

OK, OK, consider it bitten.

I talked to a dealer at the VCF about buying an Atari; the 1200XL is the one
model I didn't play with. Other people at the VCF recommended the 1200XL key-
board too. The only problem is that there's no standard way to expand the
RAM. (If I'm going to write an Atari program, it should run on standard
configurations, not just my wierd set-up. So if I soup up a 1200XL but no one
else can run my program, there's not much value in my enhancements.)

Why couldn't Atari combine the best features of all the 8-bit machines and
make a perfect 8-bit machine? Or if they did, why couldn't they sell it?

-- Derek
Received on Tue Oct 20 1998 - 17:43:50 BST