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by bm98 1937 days ago
1982 Atari 800 here (was 8 years old at the time). I remember thinking the same thing at the time. When we first bought the thing, there just wasn't much I/O beyond the tape drive (and later the disk drive), and therefore the things we could do seemed very limited. It wasn't until we got a printer (a Star Micronics SG-10 dot matrix tractor feed) and a 300-bps modem that the world really opened up!