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technologizer.com - 1/20/2009

Atari’s 1984 Touch Tablet: A Retro-Unboxing

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The next time you use your shiny new Wacom tablet and Adobe Photoshop CS4, think back to a time before time–a time before blends, morphs, heal brushes, and 10-megapixel images. A time like 1984, which, for computer graphics, was darker than the Dark Ages. It was a time when you could buy ...

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msnbc.msn.com - 1/22/2009

‘Like Going From an Xbox to an Atari’

— msnbc.msn.com — Obama administration officials meet the existing White House tech infrastructure: The team members, accustomed to working on Macintoshes, found computers outfitted with six-year-old versions of Microsoft software. Laptops were scarce, ... (more) ‘Like Going From an Xbox to an Atari’

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technologizer.com - 1/20/2009

Atari’s 1984 Touch Tablet: A Retro-Unboxing | Technologizer

— technologizer.com — 1984 Atari Touch Tablet The Tablet in Action Fancying myself somewhat of an artiste, I decided to try my hand at drawing some various-colored circles and rectangles on the screen. It worked. After three hours with AtariArtist, I came to the ... (more) Atari’s 1984 Touch Tablet: A ...

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edge-online.com - 1/14/2009

Atari Explains Silent Hill Content Cuts

— edge-online.com — Atari has revealed to Edge more details of the amendments made to Silent Hill Homecoming for it to be granted classification in Australia. News emerged last week that the title had been resubmitted to the Australian Board of Classification (meaning ... (more) Atari Explains Silent Hill Content Cuts

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What Computer Graphics Were in 1984
Technologizer — Atari Tablet Unboxing It’s not multi-touch. Hey, it’s not even single touch by modern standards. But the Atari Touch Tablet that Vintage Computing and Gaming ’s Benj Edwards recently bought was still in its original, unopened packaging. And so Benj took the opportunity to do a new unboxing of a really old gadget–and we’re delighted to publish it here. View Atari Touch Tablet unboxing slideshow

Atari Touch Tablet unboxed 25 years after the fact
Engadget — ... Are you an artist wishing to unchain the shackles of traditional media, looking for a way to catapult yourself and your work into the 20th Century? A chap named Benj Edwards has been kind enough to unbox for us Atari's Touch Tablet, a classic piece of kit from ...

Retro unboxing of the Atari Touch Tablet
CrunchGear — Technologizer just unboxed their Atari CX77 touch tablet, one of the earliest consumer grade touchpads ever released. I used to have this thing and I loved it. I remember trying to draw a naked woman on my 800XL - in 8-bit color, no less - using Atari Paint (??). I can only imagine why my parents paid $89.95 for this thing back in the day - I seem to remember it was on sale. Truly amazing tech.

Retromodo: A Modern Day Unboxing of a 1984 Atari Touch Tablet [Retromodo]
Gizmodo — ... Personally, I'm not much into unboxing unless I'm the one doing the honors, but a modern day unboxing of a 25 year old Atari CX77 Touch Tablet is like opening up a time capsule. ...

Unboxing a 1984 Atari Touch Tablet
Retro Thing — ... is the AtariArtist software on cartridge, which we’ll be playing with in a moment. Plugging in the cartridge, I was presented with the main menu of the AtariArtist illustration software. To make more room for the tablet, I pushed my 130XE to the side.  Luckily, it didn’t fall over until after I finished taking photos. Here’s a shot of the AtariArtist menu up close. Most of the options presented here are self-explanatory [lame Britney Spears joke omitted]." Atari’s 1984 Touch Tablet: How not to present a Retro-Unboxing [thanks, Silver ...