Emulation or the real thing?

From: Aaron Christopher Finney <aaron_at_wfi-inc.com>
Date: Tue Oct 20 18:38:04 1998

Actually, I think you can still buy 1200xl keyboards from B&C (you used to
be able to buy them from Radio Shack!) and I have the info for interfacing
it to the 800XL, if you're interested. It mounts pretty well and the
response and layout make it well worth the work.

On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, D. Peschel wrote:

> > 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 - 18:38:04 BST