Here's a quick album with a few pictures of our booth from the Trenton Computer Festival 2016 this past Saturday, the 19th. http://imgur.com/a/jWwEC I know, I know... Evan wouldn't let me forget that I had a Commodore monitor attached to an Atari 800XL. I have my reasons though! Primarily, I don't have an Atari monitor, I've restored the Commodore monitor so I knew it would be bulletproof for the show, it has a great picture, I've done the Chroma mod to the XL so I knew it would look nearly perfect and I've got the appropriate cabling made to hook it up. So :-p The Epson PX-8 made it to just over 265,000 counting by one for the duration of the show. I think it wound up being up and running for about 6 hours or so. The idea for this program was stolen from Doug. :-) The Tandy Model 102 was running a number guessing program I threw together in the morning. Next show I'm thinking I'll add a high score (or more accurately lowest score) routine that tracks the fewest attempts to guess the number. See ya! -Todd
I know, I know... Evan wouldn't let me forget that I had a Commodore monitor attached to an Atari 800XL. I have my reasons though! Primarily, I don't have an Atari monitor, I've restored the Commodore monitor so I knew it would be bulletproof for the show, it has a great picture, I've done the Chroma mod to the XL so I knew it would look nearly perfect and I've got the appropriate cabling made to hook it up. So :-p
No complaints here. The 1702 is “the" standard for 80's micro monitors because it rocks! I’d be disappointed if you used anything else!
No complaints here. The 1702 is “the" standard for 80's micro monitors because it rocks! I’d be disappointed if you used anything else!
In my defense :) the concern was that people would think the 800XL was a Commodore. The opposite concern proved more common: people saw "Atari" and assumed it was the videogame console they had as kids. Todd and I educated them as best as we could.
On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 9:13 AM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
No complaints here. The 1702 is “the" standard for 80's micro monitors because it rocks! I’d be disappointed if you used anything else!
In my defense :) the concern was that people would think the 800XL was a Commodore. The opposite concern proved more common: people saw "Atari" and assumed it was the videogame console they had as kids. Todd and I educated them as best as we could.
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On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 9:28 AM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 9:13 AM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
No complaints here. The 1702 is “the" standard for 80's micro monitors because it rocks! I’d be disappointed if you used anything else!
In my defense :) the concern was that people would think the 800XL was a Commodore. The opposite concern proved more common: people saw "Atari" and assumed it was the videogame console they had as kids. Todd and I educated them as best as we could.
Oh lets just slap a sticker on the monitors to make them match the computer brand they are attached to. No sense confusing those folks who can't see that the computer is an atari attached to a commodore monitor. An Atari 1702? Perfect. They'll never know and will be so happy to see a matched set. Jeesh.
On 03/21/2016 08:58 AM, Todd George via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Here's a quick album with a few pictures of our booth from the Trenton Computer Festival 2016 this past Saturday, the 19th.
I know, I know... Evan wouldn't let me forget that I had a Commodore monitor attached to an Atari 800XL. I have my reasons though! Primarily, I don't have an Atari monitor, I've restored the Commodore monitor so I knew it would be bulletproof for the show, it has a great picture, I've done the Chroma mod to the XL so I knew it would look nearly perfect and I've got the appropriate cabling made to hook it up. So :-p
I guess that was you, Todd, I spoke with at the show. It was quite normal for an Atari to run with the Commodore monitor. We Atarians would just put some tape, stickers, notes over the label and not admit that the Commodore monitors were better. Of course we all know it was just labeled Commodore and not really made by them. ;-) See, still won't admit it! ;-) -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies
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william degnan