Comments on: Atari’s 1984 Touch Tablet: A Retro-Unboxing

By: The Top 15 Technologizer Stories of 2009 | Technologizer

The Top 15 Technologizer Stories of 2009 | Technologizer — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:18:42 +0000

[...] Atari’s 1984 Touch Tablet: A Retro Unboxing: Benj finds and buys a shrinkwrapped peripheral from the golden age of home PCs, and documents the [...]

By: DaVince

DaVince — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:02:26 +0000

It’s a nice article, but the layout stinks. I’d like to scroll down for content, not reach for the mouse every time I’m done reading – which usually is before the page even finished loading.

People are pissed at the poor layout of this article – and it’s perfectly understandable. Splitting up small bits of content over 14 pages is a waste of bandwidth on both the server and client sides, as well as an inconvenience.

By: John

John — Sat, 30 May 2009 02:16:36 +0000

OMG! I completely forgot about that… Actually, I purchased the Koala pad (not the Atari one), but anyway, it was way-wayyyy back when… Interesting how you can totally forget about something, but then it appears in an article, a conversation, or whatever… and you’re suddenly transported back to a by-gone era… Thanks for posting this!

By: KeithCu

KeithCu — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:16:19 +0000

I didn’t even click past the first page, or even read any of the text on the first page.

By: tired of clicking

tired of clicking — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:16:02 +0000

I was going to check this out. Then I found out I would have to click a bunch more unnecessary times. Stop wasting my time when I’m wasting time!

By: The 1984 Atari Pen-Tablet

The 1984 Atari Pen-Tablet — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:33:09 +0000

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By: dagrappler

dagrappler — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:11:32 +0000

I still am an atari 800 owner, first one came with 16k with a 48 total ram expansion, remember the HAPPY Drives? I got the mod card for my 810 disk drive…And the old WICO Bathandle joysticks? My kingdom for a leaf-switch joystick that worked like the old atari ones for the PC instead of these crappy potentiometer ones for the PC…!

The thing about the 800 series is that they were built WAY ahead of their time, with multiple specialty chips handling graphics, sound, etc., it was so much better than the Apple in its computing power and built with a lot more quality behind them than the Commodore 64 (I used to repair all 3 in the 80s). The atari had a direct-connect 300 baud modem and even the ATR 8000 adaptor that allowed you to even RUN CP/M…I love downloading the emulated stuff just to remind me of the games I used to love so much and waste SO much time on the 80’s…

By: A Retro-Unboxing: The Atari Touch Tablet - The Retroist

A Retro-Unboxing: The Atari Touch Tablet - The Retroist — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:01:26 +0000

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dholm.com » Blog Archive » Tumblelog: 090202 — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 07:10:30 +0000

[...] Atari’s 1984 Touch Tablet: A Retro-Unboxing, even though it’s cool I hate it that he unboxed this relic. [...]

By: seremina

seremina — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 02:32:11 +0000

Awesome! I enjoyed it. I may not have ever had an Atari, but I still love the nostalgia of older products. Its why I visit antiques shops.

You brought me my antiques fix today. Hooray! I like the layout, as it was a slideshow. I enjoyed the anticipation while waiting for the pic to load. I’m like “More, more! Yes, I love it! How old does it look? How old!?”, and loved every bit of it. Unfortunately, 14 pages wasn’t enough for me. Oh well. Thank you so much.

May your next nostalgic find require more pages!