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Tip
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Reader Mark "Two
Jags" Banfield sent us this tip. Watch out for the Dalek!
My first computer
was a Dragon 32, when it was one of the
only high street computers with a real keyboard,
but I really wanted an Atari! A few years later
I had saved enough money working on the farms
to buy an STFM. This was a great asset while
I was at college (Medway College of Art and
Design, two years Product Design, three years
Industrial Model-making). I wrote many essays
with it, and in my final year show I had it
running a Cyber Studio animation of a product
I had designed - almost state of the art stuff
back then!
In 1993 I found
a job in Hong Kong that was too good to miss
so I sold my STFM and left. While in Hong Kong
I started using PCs but missed the straightforward Atari TOS and GEM. A few years later
an ex Atari developer (Yat Siu of Lexicor Software)
gave me the TT in a non-working condition. After replacing one resistor
it was up and running! It now has a 250 MB hard
drive, 16 MB TT RAM and 8 MB ST RAM. The Mega
STE (which is desperately in need of a case)
was bought from Toad Computers when it had
its clearout sale.
When I returned
to the UK in 2000 I started collecting all the
Atari stuff I had missed over the years. In
this six foot square room you can find the TT
with TTM195 monitor, two STEs, two Jaguars, and the
Mega STE. Alongside these are two PCs, a Power
Mac
8100 and a Silicon Graphics Indy, which does
make a great TTM195 monitor stand! Most of these
have either been given to me or were very cheap
at boot fairs. I am slowly getting back
into programming for the Atari. Nothing too
fancy to start with, but I hope to have something
to show at next year's JagFest!
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