I purchased my first Atari 800 in 1979; and believe me, I was not rich. I didn't get a disk drive for the poor thing for 4 months (had to save!)
I worked like a dog to buy my 40-column dot matrix printer (Atari 820); an Atari 850 RS232 interface, a 9v battery-operated Signalman Mark III 300 baud modem and the extra RAM to bring it to the 48K barrier.
I was 12 at the time (go figure!)
Thanks to it, I started working at a computer store when I was 14 as a business systems programmer!
Check this out in the Atari Museum...
http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/consoles/
Maybe more research needs to go into Eric Horvitz's idea "Models of Attention in Computing and Communication: From Principles to Applications" where the computer acts as a filter for this data in a more "human" manner.
I purchased my first Atari 800 in 1979; and believe me, I was not rich. I didn't get a disk drive for the poor thing for 4 months (had to save!)
I worked like a dog to buy my 40-column dot matrix printer (Atari 820); an Atari 850 RS232 interface, a 9v battery-operated Signalman Mark III 300 baud modem and the extra RAM to bring it to the 48K barrier.
I was 12 at the time (go figure!)
Thanks to it, I started working at a computer store when I was 14 as a business systems programmer!