Re: Atari 8-bit hardware
  By: Damon A. Getsman to Josh Renaud on Sat Jan 26 2013 17:32:25

Indeed I did. As a kid we owned two Atari 800s and a 130XE. Later we got a
520ST, and once I had money of my own in my teen years, I bought a 1040STe.

The OS is radically different from the 8-bits. It was a GUI, meant to compete
against the Mac. "Power without the price" was the ST sales
pitch. The ST line
was really nice. The problem was that Atari didn't update it fast enough. When
they did deliver great new machines (Mega STe, Falcon, etc), it was several
years later than when they should have come out.

I really loved my ST machines, and lately I have been fooling around more with
the Hatari emulator. I figured out a way to use my old ANSIterm terminal
program in Hatari, and to make it talk to telnet BBSes with the help of two
linux utilities: tcpser4j and socat.
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