http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/ Engadget Comments for Atari Touch Tablet unboxed 25 years after the fact http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/Jan 20th 2009 10:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/Jan 20th 2009 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/Jan 20th 2009 12:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/
I think my parents hid anything about this touch screen machine away from me so I wouldn't want one.]]>Jan 20th 2009 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/Jan 20th 2009 5:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/Jan 20th 2009 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/Also wasn't there an easter egg where clicking on the ATARI logo a couple of times made it play a little jingle? ]]>Jan 20th 2009 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/
I personally remember saving every dollar I got all summer so I could buy this for my 800XL. It was one of those gadgets that I had absolutely no need for but I just remember thinking how cool it would be to interface with the computer that way. (This was before I had ever touched a mouse.)

I also just wanted more peripherals to match my awesome computer. I still think all peripherals should be beige and brown with a stainless steel band rockin the brand and model.]]>Jan 20th 2009 10:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/Jan 20th 2009 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/Jan 20th 2009 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/Jan 20th 2009 10:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/
I remember typing in a program from Compute magazine that took several hours...saving it 4 times and losing it in 30 seconds. It's what made me switch to a C64 with a REAL disk drive!!
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The Ataris had a floppy drive too, probably a nicer one than the C64's.

I got an Atari 800XL for Christmas one year, and we had to get the diskette drive for my birthday in April because the cassette drive was such a POS. It was the most expensive present I ever got, but it paid off handsomely for my parents in the 25 years of free tech support that have followed. ]]>Jan 20th 2009 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/Jan 20th 2009 12:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/Jan 20th 2009 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KoalaPad/Painter) for the Commodore 64... pretty much the same thing but able to save to the 5.25" floppy drive. I wonder if it is still in my parent's garage somewhere? Maybe next time I'm back east I'll take a look for a little unboxing session.]]>Jan 20th 2009 11:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/ The Atari computer series was awesome. If Atari had a management team like Apple in the early days things would definitely be different in the gadget world.]]>Jan 20th 2009 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/From what I remember reading Atari had a pretty relaxed atmosphere. However things changed when Warner took over and people started jumping ship. The rest was all down hill from there. ]]>Jan 20th 2009 12:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/Jan 20th 2009 2:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/
It was really amazing what could be done with 64k of memory.

I donated the two science kits to the computer museum in California. I never came across anyone else who had one.
]]>Jan 20th 2009 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/Jan 20th 2009 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/Jan 20th 2009 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/It was really amazing what could be done with 64k of memory.
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Like send a man to the moon, for example?]]>Jan 20th 2009 3:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/
Ah, 8-bit assembly code...the last time Assembly was easy...]]>Jan 20th 2009 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/
Then there was the Magnavox Odessey2. Pick Ax Pete, Gunfighter, Sattelite Attack, Las Vegas Gambling; that beast is at my grandmas house still kickin'! Maybe she'll give it to me now. I would love to show my kids how we did it old school. ]]>Jan 20th 2009 11:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/Jan 20th 2009 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/Jan 20th 2009 12:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/Jan 20th 2009 12:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/5 1/4" floppy drive.]]>Jan 20th 2009 12:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/
Here's more info on the AtariLab others were talking about up above:

http://www.atarimagazines.com/v3n6/atarilab.html

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2007/01/8bit_science_at.html

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30 RL=79
40 FOR ZEBRA=0 TO 48
50 REM GTIA HIWAY * FAST LANE *
60 COLOR ZEBRA
70 PLOT RL, LL
80 DRAWTO 0,0
90 RL=RL-1
100 NEXT ZEBRA
110 GOTO 110
120 END

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Man, talk about old news...]]>Jan 20th 2009 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/Jan 20th 2009 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/Jan 20th 2009 4:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/Jan 20th 2009 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/Jan 20th 2009 5:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/Jan 20th 2009 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/Jan 20th 2009 5:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/Jan 20th 2009 7:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/Jan 20th 2009 7:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/Jan 21st 2009 2:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/atari-touch-tablet-unboxed-25-years-after-the-fact/Jan 28th 2009 12:23AM