Bill Kendrick

Holy smokes! My only question is -- will that cart fit in an Atari 1200XL? (It's cart port is on the side) Glad we're catching up with the Jonse Commodorians.

OMG how had I not heard of this before? Yes, please make a DVD, or post the rest to YouTube, or sent it to Peter Brantley at the Internet Archive!!!

I got my 1200XL back when they were first being sold, in 1983 (could it have been 1982? I can never remember! probably not; I think that's when I got my brother's hand-me-down Timex Sinclair 1000 when he got his Commodore 64) Anyway, in the mid-to-late 1990s, I handed it off to Bob Woolley for some hacking, as well as to fix the keyboard. I lost track of Bob for a few years, and finally a couple of years ago he gave me a 512KB 1200XL with some wacky OS. I didn't like it much, and implored him to find my original 1200XL. It occurred to me that if he looked for wear-and-tear on the keyboard (my nails really dug into the CONTROL key), he'd find it. A little digging around comp.sys.atari.8bit for posts I made back in the day provided other hints (e.g., 800XL+800 switchable OS, S-video upgrade, and RamboXL 256KB that he had added for me previously). This past weekend, I got mine back! Sadly, and unsurprisingly (and in a way, further proof that this is MY Atari from when I was a kid), the sticker on the bottom is all worn (photo: ), but here's what I can read of it ??? DA 24849 253 It was made in Taiwan. It was purchase somewhere in Marin county (maybe San Rafael? I remember poking at an 800XL and being unimpressed at a department store; not sure if it was Emporium, Montgomery Wards or Sears), lived in Novato, CA for a long time, moved up to college with me in the mid-1990s (Rohnert Park, CA), and is now finally back with me, here in Davis, CA.

Kicks ass! Nice work!