Gadget Warehouse Time -- Leo & I open boxes from the past!

While Leo & I were reminiscing about our first Atari computers, the 800 and 800XL, a friend of mine Larry Gerson said to his tons of Atari equipment and would gladly ship them out to TWiT.

Larry did ship everything out to the Brick TWiT House and Leo & I opened some of the box live on the show. Not only did Larry have the Atari 800, but he also then bought the Atari ST, a much higher end machine that came out in June 1985. For a computer, it had an incredibly long life. It was discontinued in 1993. Here’s a bit more from Wikipedia. A link to the whole entry is below. 

CPU Motorola 680x0 @ 8 MHz & higher / Memory 512 kilobytes (512×210 bytes) to 4 megabytes (4×220 bytes) / The "ST" officially stands for "Sixteen/Thirty-two", which referred to the Motorola 68000's 16-bit external bus and 32-bit internals. Due to its graphical user inferface, it was known as the "Jackintosh", a reference to Jack Tramiel. The ST was the first home computer with integrated MIDI support. Thanks to its built-in MIDI, it enjoyed success for running music-sequencer software and as a controller of musical instruments among amateurs and professionals alike, being used in concert by bands and performers such as Jean Michel Jarre, Madonna, and Eurythmics. 

Read all about the Atari ST computer at Wikipedia: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_ST

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