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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: 2) by driverless on Monday October 04 2021, @01:25AM (1 child)
Interesting story about the 1MB Atari ST, this was created in Europe, possibly Germany, and sold at the time as the "Mega ST". Got back to the US after seeing it all over the place and couldn't see it for sale in the US at all. Called Atari US and they'd never heard of it, "we don't make a 1MB ST". They eventually released an equivalent in the US as the 1040ST, which was different from the German(?) Mega ST. It was quite a surprise to me at the time that something that seemed to be everywhere in Europe didn't even exist in the US where Atari was based, and that Atari US, or at least their customer support people, seemed to have no knowledge of it.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Monday October 04 2021, @01:34AM
Just re-read the story:
He could well have bought the 1MB ST in 1985 because it would have been the German(?) version that Atari US didn't know existed. OTOH I remember the branding as "Mega ST" not "1040 ST" and from the video the badge says "1040 ST", so who knows...