[Tenryu]

1980, Atari 800, 32KB Ram, Tape Deck for "mass storage", LOL!!!

I had to save for 3 YEARS to buy that baby! And, more difficult, convince the dear wife what a wonderful effect it would have on our child's education, as well as she being able to keep her reciepies and our check book balanced on there. Oh yeah, we could use it as a CALCULATOR too.
Sadly, she never really took the time to put it to such use. So, not wanting it to go to waste, I used it for entertainment.

Wanted an Apple IIC but couldn't get the joint that sold them to come down in price. Atari was the new kid on the block and after pestering the guy that owned the shop that sold these for about a year, he finally sold me the 800 for $800. Mainly to get rid of me, I think. He even threw in two games!!! Awesome!! Star Raiders and some space ship fleet battle game!!! I've been screwed ever since, a sucker for just about any space strategy game.

I had a friend who had a Commador Pet computer. When i told him I had 32 KB of RAM he exclaimed: "32 Kilobytes!!! What the hell for?! You can do anything ya want with 8K!"

Those were da days!