It's so odd getting my Atari STs shipped from the UK, they're going through ebay's brokerage thing but because I provided an email, I'm also getting tracking updates from the intermediate carriers along the way.
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It's so odd getting my Atari STs shipped from the UK, they're going through ebay's brokerage thing but because I provided an email, I'm also getting tracking updates from the intermediate carriers along the way.
Either that or Royal Mail is going to get a package from Sheffield to western Canada in under 48 hours, which... I don't think the UK have any trebuchets that powerful. So I'm assuming that leg is to somewhere else in the UK for ebay to sit on for a month and then hand it to fedex?
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@danderson When I lived in California, if I ordered something from the UK it always arrived within two working days. If I ordered it from elsewhere in the state, it would take a week.
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@danderson Ooooh. Way back in the day I wanted an Atari ST so badly.
We had an Atari 400, which to this day holds the title for Worst Keyboard I Have Ever Personally Used. Parents bought an Atari 800XL when they got cheap, with a real keyboard.
The Atari 520ST was too spendy, I kept using the 800XL for many years until eventually it went to college with me. In 1990 I finally replaced it with a Mac IIci.
Anyway thank you for the opportunity to reminisce about Personal Electronics of Yore.
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@dgentry I never had the 8-bit Atari, I think my dad at the time had gone with a Sinclair QL, which... was not a good machine. Later on the house computer was an Atari STe, the later enhanced model with the swanky BLiTTER, 4096 color palette, PCM audio, RAM in upgradable SIMMs... Much fancy.
They were overshadowed by the Amiga in North America, but in Europe they were the bee's knees. Assuming the ones I got work, I'm hoping I can end up with the entire range: 520STE, 1040STE, and 4160STE.