Your Name wrote on 23. January 2016:
>
> In article , Andreas Kohlbach
>  wrote:
>>
>> Learning about "new" (old in fact) home computers from the 70s and 80s
>> many could in fact "auto boot". Too bad the Commodore 64 was not among them.
>
> Of course it probably depends on what "Atari" you're talking about too.

To be fair, the 8-bit family (400, 800) of Atari
.

AFAIK even the Apple II (1977) could autoboot from floppy. That was 5
years before the Commodore 64 was introduced. In that time frame of the
late 70s to mid 80s, 5 years are generations.

Because my first computer was a Commodore 64 booting manually was just
the way it was supposed to be. Never dealt with other home computers
until much later. For example I saw the first Amiga in 1986. That was the
first computer I knew being able to autoboot.

> The C64 did have the ability to "auto-run" from a cartridge plugged in.

But others could autoboot when just a floppy was inserted prior power-on.
--
Andreas

I use a Unix based operating system, which means I get laid almost as often
as I have to reboot my computer.

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