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Dutch legend has been running his campsite since 1986 using an Atari ST:
If there's one thing YouTuber Viktor Bart likes, it's retro computers: his channel is dedicated to videos about building old machines, their functions, cool oddities, and just generally the joy of these beige things. Even Mr. Bart, however, was surprised by what he found in Koningsbosch, in the Dutch province of Limburg: a campsite that's been run since 1986 on an Atari ST.
[Ed note: Is there anybody here who has an Atari ST? Please share your experience in the comments.
I bought its predecessor, an Atari 800, in 1980. Even got an expansion cartridge to boost memory from the on-board 8 KB RAM. Yes, I spent countless hours playing Star Raiders. It was not as capable as the Atari ST, but it was a fun system that booted up instantly!]
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 03 2021, @06:59PM
The biggest problem with the Atari for me was the name. My parents wouldn't buy me an Atari computer because they thought it would be too much for games. At least I finally got a C64, and used it... for games, but learning too. I think the Atari may have been just as open as the C64, with the ability to PEEK and POKE stuff, unlike that lousy TI/99-4A which AFAIK wouldn't let you access the hardware like that without a pricey expansion card. It took at least a year of begging, maybe 2 to get that thing replaced and it set me back. Because of the expensive peripherals, I was limited to what I could type in and run (in BASIC) before the machine was shut off for the night or somebody wanted to watch something on the TV! Not knowing anything about computers, my folks got pulled in by the Bill Cosby ads. I was hating Cosby years before many other people, for an entirely different reason.