(Top post here.)
All hail Jack Tramiel
All hail Nolan Bushnell
All hail (enter C64 engineer here)
All hail Jay Miner (Atari engineer)
I don't know what the hail.
Both are fantastic machines.
I just don't have any more room for
junk, so I don't collect more than
one.
I still am amazed by the machine
and learn new things 26 years after
my first purchase.
The Coleco Adam was my first purchase.
After three smokers on first startup
I returned the Adams and took my
son's advice and bought the Atari.
I haven't been sorry since.
My understanding of the Atari helps
me be facile with a PC.
Hardware people keep coming up with
new items that help keep them alive.
Atari can have a cart that allows
use of a SD card! I'm sure there's
comparable new hardware for the C=64.
Apples were, and still are, for more
uppity people.  Oh, all hail Steve
Jobs and Wozniac.
(Darn, I promised myself not to
feed the troll.)


"Ben Tuddy" <> wrote in message news:
> Why do you people still use ATARI 800 computers???
>
> The C64 is far superior, it has 8 real sprites, better scrolling
> and a real sound-synthesizer chip, the SID.
>
> Why did anybody buy the inferior ATARI 800???
>
> The ATARI 800 is crap, when it's compared to the C64.
>
> Why don't you throw away your ATARI???