A8 users... Where do you live

[+Allan]

I'm 42 and got my first Atari 800XL in 83ish. then got my 130XE when that came out.

Live in somewhat central Connecticut.

 

Allan

[adam242]

Got a 600XL for Christmas in '84 after loving my friends' 400 and 800. I'm 38 now and still rocking a 1200XL

Representing the 313!

Edited December 20, 2011 by adam242

[AtariDude]

I was born in Havana, Cuba but I left Cuba when I was 5 years old and lived in New Jersey for 23 years. Back in 1988, we moved to South Florida, first in Hialeah then Miami where we currently live. Sometimes I miss the change of seasons since there is no real winter to speak of in Miami. Some years it gets old but there are years where it is still warm. Right now it is the middle of December and the temperatures are still in th mid 70s so you can enjoy time outside.

[AtariDude]

I was born in Havana, Cuba but I left Cuba when I was 5 years old and lived in New Jersey for 23 years. Back in 1988, we moved to South Florida, first in Hialeah then Miami where we currently live. Sometimes I miss the change of seasons since there is no real winter to speak of in Miami. Some years it gets old but there are years where it is still warm. Right now it is the middle of December and the temperatures are still in the mid 70s so you can enjoy time outside.

 

In terms of my Atari computers, my first computer was an Atari 800XL which is still my favorite keyboard of all time. I would eventually buy a 130xe and later a 520ST with color monitor back in 1986. I eventually sold my 8 bit machines but I still have all my floppies from that era. Not sure how many of them still would work but I had someone test one of the floppies about 3 or 4 years ago for one of the disk based games and it worked!

 

I remember wanting to buy the ST since it ran PC and Mac Software thanks to a company run by David Small if I remember his name correctly. I never got the system since it seemed to require an actual chip from Apple to run and you would need to go to an Apple dealer to get the chip from a broken machine. Funny that I now use Mac machines to emulate the ST.

 

I would eventually sell the ST back in 1993 to a friend because I wanted to get a PC compatible since the support for the ST was next to nil. I keep using one version of a PC compatible through 2004 when I got my first Mac computer (an Apple 17 inch g4 PowerBook) and I have been using Macs exclusively since then. While I still have the PowerBook, there is an issue with the motherboard that causes the screen to be over saturated in purple. The cost to repair was like $800 so for that I decided to buy a 20 inch iMac instead. I still have that iMac but I also have a MacBook Pro with more memory.

 

In addition, my main machine as it were is my iPad2 which I am using right now to write this. I have gotten addicted to the instant on of this machine and the fact that I can take it anymore without having to pack it into a protective bag (I have a Belkin stand that folds away. It has grooves to keep the iPad still for when I am watching movies on Netflix). If not for needing the occasional use of flash, my computers would never get used.

[AtariDude]

I'm 40 and live in Miami, Florida USA. My first computer was an 800 with a tape drive about 1983. The store owner here talked me out of buying an 800xl saying there were compatability problems and bla bla. Any other users in the south florida area?

 

Yeah me. I live in Miami. There is another user as well that I met with but he has been busy with college / military so I have not heard from him in a while.

[HighKali]

Buongiorno,italiano

38 anni e Atari lover https://media.tenor.com/V4j8m0sEyrcAAAAM/atari-retro.gif

[RedShirt36]

I'm 61 and have lived in Buffalo, New York, USA, my entire life. I bought my Atari 400 and 410 cassette recorder around 1983-84, while in college. I upgraded the next year to an 800 XL with a Rana 1000 floppy drive, and between AtariWriter for term papers and an MPP modem for dial-up access, that system helped me graduate. The 800XL and Rana 1000 are still working fine, surprisingly, after having been stored away for almost 40 years, although I did have to replace a 4051 keyboard chip and the keyboard mylar with one from Best. In fact, I just put a Sophia 2 board and a U1MB board in the 800 XL, and connected a FujiNet to it, and it works better than ever!

[magnusfalkirk]

65 living in Western Oplahoma

[Tillek]

 

Don't answer!

 

It's just a trick so they can find out where you live and steal your 1450XLD's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[+MrFish]

54 minutes ago, Tillek said:

It's just a trick so they can find out where you live and steal your 1450XLD's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They also want to find out who's older, so they can target the feeble.

little do they know that this is what they'll be meeting when they reach my door.

 

 

[_The Doctor__]

They keep the best ones and sell the rest on ebay at rarey expensive prices.

[+slx]

This thread (which I had forgotten about) came up and looking at page 1 I thought “wow, all these people are way younger than I am” only to realize that it started 17 years ago…

 

56 now, posting from Vienna, Austria. 

[Geister]

70 from Bethlehem, PA.  If they want to steal my 1450XLD, they'll have to bring me one first.  All I've got are the usual suspects.

[LarsImNetz]

Call me Lars

I'm 56. Live near Baltic Sea where Marzipan came from.

 

1983 - Atari 600XL + 1010

1984 - 64kb + 1050 Disk Drive

1985 - Turbo 1050

1991 - Amiga 1000 with 16MHz 030 + 2MB Fast RAM

1995 - First PC with Pentium 100

Later faster PCs currently Core i7 13700K. What a monster machine.

Since 2019 back to Atari 8bit programming, because it is more fun.

 

[ClausB]

3 hours ago, LarsImNetz said:

near Baltic Sea where Marzipan came from

Koenigsberg? My father was from Pilkallen (Schlossberg), now Dobrovolsk.

[Streamline]

In England, by the sea.

 

Had an 800 in 1980. Lost it years ago!

 

Recently got another 800 to go with my 65XE. The wife approves as its a cheaper mid-life crisis than a Porsche.

[Tillek]

On 5/15/2024 at 1:09 PM, Streamline said:

In England, by the sea.

 

Had an 800 in 1980. Lost it years ago!

 

Recently got another 800 to go with my 65XE. The wife approves as its a cheaper mid-life crisis than a Porsche.

Not to mention the pr0n is so pixelated that she probably won't be threatened by our old girlfriend Marlena...

 

 

[LarsImNetz]

On 5/13/2024 at 1:32 AM, ClausB said:

Koenigsberg? My father was from Pilkallen (Schlossberg), now Dobrovolsk.

My grandma lifed near Koenigsberg until here 18th birthday. She fled to the west in 1945. I mean Marzipan from Luebeck an old german town since 1143.

[Beeblebrox]

 

😁

[telengard]

On 4/20/2007 at 8:35 AM, WizWor said:

Better question: how old are you? It seems to me that most of us are refugees from the Golden Age. Are there A8ers who missed that era?

 

I'm from Danville, NH (USA). I'm 44 and my first Atari computer was a 400 I purchased from Zayre's Department Store in 1983 for $99 (after a $50 rebate). I remember thinking, "Who wouldn't buy a real computer for $100?" That was my first rebate too

I live in Hudson, NH... practically next door!  (I realize WizWor posted almost 20 years ago lol)

53, first Atari computer was a 130XE purchased at Lyco Computer in 1985 (I believe).  I had wanted an 800 for a few years, and had to save quite a while.   So long that by the time I had enough dough, we had gone through the XLs, and were on the XEs!

Edited Tuesday at 03:22 PM by telengard

[ClausB]

On 5/21/2024 at 10:34 AM, Beeblebrox said:

 

😁

Which of your heads posted that, Zaphod?

[Beeblebrox]

10 minutes ago, ClausB said:

Which of your heads posted that, Zaphod?

The left one would claim responsibility, but then the right one says he's a liar... 😁