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by awful 1660 days ago
Burned my modified Atari OSs into switchable eeprom boards, built the 256k memory expansions for the XL series, and made a kit for builders at the user groups. Still have them, all original 400,800, several XLs, and hundreds of games. Moved to the Amiga where it was so very much advanced, having admin'ing the SGI (4D/440), a MicroVAX II, Suns, and helped with Evans and Sutherland workstation. Spent a lot of time in Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, Mt. View, as well as haunting out the old Atari buildings and all the prototype junk that ended up at the surplus stores..
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I like hearing about Atari 8-bit computer owners who upgraded to the Amiga, both designed by Jay Miner, instead of the Atari ST, which was more of a 16-bit Commodore 64 than an Atari, being designed by one of the engineers of the C64, Shiraz Shivji.