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Atari’s 1984 Touch Tablet: A Retro-Unboxing | Technologizer
technologizer.com - 1/20/2009
Atari’s 1984 Touch Tablet: A Retro-Unboxing | Technologizer
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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 conclusion that it’s just like Photoshop, except that ...
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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Atari’s 1984 Touch Tablet: A Retro-Unboxing
technologizer.com - 1/20/2009
Atari’s 1984 Touch Tablet: A Retro-Unboxing
— technologizer.com — 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 ... (more) Atari’s 1984 Touch Tablet: A Retro-Unboxing

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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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Atari Touch Tablet unboxed 25 years after the fact
Engadget — ... Filed under: Peripherals Atari Touch Tablet unboxed 25 years after the fact originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Atari Touch Tablet
Tech Blog — ... in 4-color or 16-color software variants, the Atari Touch Tablet "lets users manipulate the size, location and color of shapes and lines -- digitally." Click here for first picture in gallery. 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. [via Engadget - Technologizer] ...

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