Unboxing a 1984 Atari Peripheral, 25 Years Later

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Unboxing a 1984 Atari Peripheral, 25 Years Later

Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 20, 2009 @03:54AM from the depreciation-appreciation dept.

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."

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Re:Annoying format. by MyLongNickName · 2009-01-20 04:16 · Score: 5, Funny

Yeah. Exactly what I was looking for. An extension to Firefox that doesn't work with Firefox 3 and hasn't been actively worked on since 2006. Witness the power of open source!

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...Cut to a rain-soaked freighter in the Atlantic by pushing-robot · 2009-01-20 04:17 · Score: 5, Funny

That belongs in a museum!

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Re:14 pages... by Bieeanda · 2009-01-20 04:32 · Score: 5, Insightful

No kidding. It's not a weblog, it's an ad farm.
One Paragraph Per Page by stoicio · 2009-01-20 04:35 · Score: 5, Informative

There needs to be more warning that it's one of those paragraph per page
advertising sites. I looked at the first page and then came back to slashdot.
Re:...Cut to a rain-soaked freighter in the Atlant by HTH+NE1 · 2009-01-20 04:46 · Score: 5, Funny

We have top men working on it now.

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Re:Here is your peice of herring by hesiod · 2009-01-20 05:31 · Score: 5, Funny

Who has time to click a page 14 times
Someone who has the time to read the first page of it, read comments about the page, and then spend five minutes constructing a complain explaining why he wouldn't click "next"?