Unboxing a 1984 Atari Peripheral, 25 Years Later

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."

Re:14 pages...

[jandrese]

Don't forget that you also get an average of 30 words per page to go with the picture.

Re:...no

[Extremus]

True! Haha! Sometimes I have the impression that some geeks want to do the same thing to their first girl.

Allow me to add something

[Corpuscavernosa]

"it would be a crime against computer history not to buy it, open it, install it, and use it" AND install Linux on it. :)

Re:Annoying format.

[MyLongNickName]

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!

...Cut to a rain-soaked freighter in the Atlantic

[pushing-robot]

That belongs in a museum!

Woah now.

[The Real Nem]

I'm using my 1984 Atari Touch Tablet you insensitive clod; one 535 x 383 resolution picture per page is a lot to ask for.

Re:...Cut to a rain-soaked freighter in the Atlant

[HTH NE1]

We have top men working on it now.

Re:One Paragraph Per Page

[Anonymous Coward]

There needs to be more warning
about posts that have forced
carriage returns for no reason
whatsoever.

Re:...Cut to a rain-soaked freighter in the Atlant

[skeeto]

Who?

Re:Here is your peice of herring

[hesiod]

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"?

Re:...Cut to a rain-soaked freighter in the Atlant

[Themer]

TOP... MEN.

Re:The real crime is...

[Anonymous Coward]

It would allow scientists to observe and record the original birthing process of an Atari Touch Tablet. There are all sorts of cultural and physiological things we could learn about them, as they are a very rare species; even the much more common, superficially similar, unboxing process has had little rigorous scientific study done.

Its been 24 years and the cartridge still worked?

[itsdapead]

The software wasn't on floppies. It was on cartridge.

A true geek would have opened the cartridge to see if it contained UV EPROMs or proper ROMs. EPROMs still working after 24 years would be fairly impressive, too...

Re:14 pages...

[elrous0]

In their defense, the page is being hosted on a Commodore 64. Every time you click on to the next page, they have to swap out discs.

Re:Collector's Item

[ABCC]

Alternatively you could unbox the thing, giggle as you imagine all the collector peens howl out in agony of the opened box, take a bunch of pics of the whole process and put them online so the same peens can ogle the illicitly treated item AND pay you more in ads than you'd ever get for the thing.... Let's face it, unboxing collectables is no different to rape porn