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1196 Borregas Avenue, Sunnyvale, California
Former Atari Corporate Headquarters 1984-1996
Now partially empty, photo taken in 2009
This is the all black version (no long rainbow stripe), I hear only sold in Ireland, so how I got one in Nottingham I don't know.
Final Gotek-Installation with LCD-Display, rotary-selector, mini USB-stick.
Think I will try to put the display directly into the ST-case. Let's see...
Atari Pole Position restoration
-PCB board repaired
-High Save kit installed
-new T molding
-front repainted
-wood damage repaired on right side
-new steering wheel decal installed
-CPO cleaned
-new power cord installed
An ebay-purchase in quite good condition. Consistent yellowing of course. But a good base for a Gotek floppy-emulator. ;-)
I decided to got my old Atari ST out of the loft when I was back home, to play the good old games and listen to the music I composed on this baby. Don't let the 520 badge (as in 520kB) fool you, this beast has a whopping **4MB** of ram!!!
Could do with a clean though.
The Atari 7800 gamepad. This beauty was apparently never released in North America, but was reportedly the default pack-in controller for the UK and Australia. It’s not the best gamepad ever (The buttons are a tad sticky, and those grooves are just pain weird), but if the alternative is the Pain-Line joystick, you’re not going to complain. If you have an Atari 7800 and don’t want to get Carpal Tunnel from playing Ninja Golf, then you need to track down one of these gamepads.
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On Atari: Old Navy jacket, Gumballs corduroy pants, Nike Cortez sneakers.
On Gracinha: Old Navy jacket, Levi's denims, Adidas shoes.
An ebay-purchase in quite good condition. Consistent yellowing of course. But a good base for a Gotek floppy-emulator. ;-)
Atari Elektronik Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH
Bebelallee 10, Hamburg, Germany
HQ from 1981-1985
Now empty, photo taken in 2008
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.
The Atari TT was Atari's flagship computer, boasting with a 32MHz 68030 CPU. When I learned about it I always dreamt of owning one, but back then there was just no way I could afford one.
But despite moving on to PC the dream was always there to one day own an Atari TT. And in the beginning of 2012, I was finally able to lay my hands on one on Ebay from Germany. When checking it more carefully it turns out it was sold on Ebay from Austria a couple of months earlier. It was then equipped with an extra graphics card and that owner had moved the two extra serial ports to the case, that's how I recognised it.
To my absolute horror it developed some bad hardware errors after a week, crashing all the time and refusing to boot, but luckily it turns out that since this is a relatively early model, most chips are in sockets, so all I needed to do was to push down on some chips to make it work again. But since then I'm really careful about not moving it about too much.
I've got 16MB of TT-RAm for it now, replaced the cooling fan and the clock battery. One of these days I plan to retro-bright the case as well.
Created using the excellent Atari 2600 Label Creator at www.labelmaker2600.com/
Btw, he was playing Tempest 2000 on April 28, 2007...
An ebay-purchase in quite good condition. Consistent yellowing of course. But a good base for a Gotek floppy-emulator. ;-)