10 Aug
1997
10 Aug
'97
1:47 a.m.
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997 21:27:07 +0500
Reply-to: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu
From: Jeff Hellige <jeffh(a)unix.aardvarkol.com>
To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers"
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: CCC : Atari machines
X-To: Lawrence Walker <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
On 08-Aug-97, Lawrence Walker wrote:
The one I have had
basic built into it's 32k ROM and was
functionally an XE . If the XL and XE qualify then so does
the XEGS IMHO.
ciao larry
be listed
instead or separately? (For that matter, the XE Game System,
which is on the list, only becomes a "computer" when the
separately-marketed keyboard is added to it; otherwise, it is strictly a
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> cartridge game machine too.) Not so . I have one in the original packaging .
As well as a
keyboard, it also included a joystck and a "light-gun". It also had a
manual for Atari Basic AND 2 game cartridges.WOW, what a deal. : ^ )
Larry,
I believe that initially, the XEGS keyboard was optional though. The
wording in the keyboard's manaul, at least the one I have, seems to support
this. The argument of whether the XEGS is a game console or a computer is one
that has been going on in the newsgroups for quite some time off and on.
Jeff Jeffh(a)unix.aardvarkol.com
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