Unboxing a 1984 Atari Peripheral, 25 Years Later

Harry writes "When you come across a 1984 Atari Touch Tablet for sale cheap--in the original, unopened box--it would be a crime against computer history not to buy it, open it, install it, and use it, and to document the whole process with photos and commentary."

Comments

Re:Annoying format.

[shinier]

Yes, the power of open source being you can update it yourself! If it were closed, that'd really be that.

Here is your peice of herring

[linzeal]

People if you want real breaking science and engineering news try Eureka Alerts, no forum but at least they don't pull shit like this every other week. For the sake of god there isn't even a printable version on 95% of the ad farming websites anymore because they know we would link to it. Who has time to click a page 14 times like a trained seal for a piece of tinned herring? Speaking of herring there is a technically inclined one that does not link to ad farms. Seriously, Slashdot editors if you read this, you know we are all using Adblock Plus, well at least I have ever since your animated banners showed up, do you really think we of all people would tolerate linking to a page like this? I honestly used to look forward to being able to click on your ads after reading the article because they were mostly unobtrusive, often fun and half the time relevant but I am physically incapable of reading something on a page that has animations without frustration and discomfort. I mean who can honestly absorb a significant amount of information that way? It is the Power Point presentation level of discourse, the executive summary level of detail and the blasé attitude from site administrators that their visitors would tolerate something they would not because it sells 1% more ad dollars for 10x the ads that sickens me to the point of loathing and disgust. Grrrr!

Worst Joke ever in TFA

[changos]

"and "K-line" was married to Britney Spears. Or was that K-Fed? "

Looks like I'm not alone

[BattyMan]

in wearying of having to click through a dozen or more pages to read an article that would fit on one or (maybe) two. Surely these morons can tell that we're using AdBlock anyway! This guy was heavily flamed in his discussion comments, 95% of which bitch about how thin his content really is.