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One of my hobbies is collecting retro-computers, focusing on computers made by Atari. I have currently have eleven different Atari-models, three from Commodore and one other model in my collection.
In 1988 - 89 I was in first year in High School. That meant a new school and new friends and new influences. As I mentioned earlier home computers was pretty rare around this part of Sweden, not many had an interest in computers and fewer had them at home, though things started to change now. I had seen an Commodore Amiga at a friends home a few years earlier, but he only used it for games, and I was more into programming so it didn't really leave that much of an impression as I can recall.
But the Commodore 64 I had at home started to feel somewhat limited and old, so it was time for a change. And the choice was between the Commodore Amiga and the Atari ST. Most of of my friends had already gone for the Atari, and it was also considerably cheaper than the Amiga, so it was an obvious choice.
This is my Atari 520 STfm that I bought in February 1989. It has been through a lot, I used it for running a BBS for about 5 years, the original PSU is broken so I had an external PSU for it, the floppy drive didn't seem to work the last time I tried it. It's been through a failed memory upgrade and it was one of the rare ST's that had the flawed DMA-chip that the first generations of STE's had, so the motherboard is replaced with an 1 MB board. Currently it's mostly a wreck and donor a computer.
Getting an Atari 2600 to work. Displaying the notorious worst game ever, but I really expected it to be worse than it actually was.
So I got this Atari 2600 clone, it's builted in a Famicom shell. At first glance you could get confused but once you see the size of the cart slot you realize that in fact is an atari 2600.