[vcf-midatlantic] VCFed's Booth at TCF2016

Douglas Crawford touchetek at gmail.com
Mon Mar 21 11:03:36 EDT 2016


On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 9:28 AM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 9:13 AM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <
> vcf-midatlantic at 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.



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