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https://uspto.report/TM/73486415

A *little* bit late but we just called ourselves The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation. I think someone else mentioned TSCC in relation to a Shamen demo so it got a bit muddled.

Same here. Somehow they totally bypassed me. Probably a good job too, I'd have spent a fortune!

Curious that no one picked up on the original poster saying it looked like a factory upgrade and the box had a sticker saying it was a 64K 600 XL

Was it just me or did a lot of his dates sound a bit out, especially taking into account where he was working at the time or was that the 'new' Atari?

He's fairly active on the Atari Age group on Facebook and often chips in with corrections and thoughts on that era.

I'm guessing in relation to the PET etc, being black and white and not having proper sound, they didn't count as a "home computer" hence his emphasis on "Full featured"

It was both kit and pre-built

Also the ZX80 before that.

I know the guy will be biased because of who he is but seriously, VIC20 was the first home computer? Atari 800 was apparently a games computer and TI99/4 wasn't 'fully featured' https://www.facebook.com/michael.tomczyk.90/posts/1915406888484108?comment_id=1917577321600398&reply_comment_id=1918394684851995&notif_id=1524626645879039&notif_t=feed_comment_reply&ref=notif

His account says "smido is hospitalized :/"

My history was: 400->800->130XE->STM The STM was upgraded to 2.5Mb RAM and had a 286 hardware PC Emulator, hard drive, mono and colour screens and an external 720K HD Then I got a Mega STe with a 386 board, same hard drive, but a multisync monitor. Then finally a Falcon And at the risk of becoming unpopular, I got a 486 multimedia PC and wished I'd never bothered with the Falcon...

Exactly. There were some superb DTP and WP packages with excellent font support. There was of course all the music pro's using the MIDI aspects and decent database and spreadsheet products too. It was less so in the Uk compared to Germany and possibly others but firms did use STs for their day to day work and people working from home often had an ST and software with MS compatible file formats so they could exchange documents back and forth. I used to use an ST to write Unix code for DEC Ultrix using Lattice C and some stubs. I would write the code at home, get it compiling then bring the source into work to test and debug.

I've just been reading some old UK music magazines and one from April 85 has the following quote: The projected package deal of the top-of-the-range 520ST (that's the 512K version) plus a colour monitor and 1 megabyte disk drive is likely to sell for between £800 and £900, and if you bear in mind that the equivalent (though still only monochrome) Apple Macintosh system costs well over £2500, that's exciting by any standards. When you add on the ST's wonderful Mac-type Digital Research GEM operating system, the built-in MIDI port, the MIDI software that companies are already developing for it, and the addon keyboard and digital synth that Atari have produced for it, there's really not much doubt left in my mind about Tramiel's claim that, 'by 1986, we will have captured 25 per cent of the UK home computer market'. I know about the Hotz Box from later on but what could they have been referring to here?

If you're talking about the RF output, that will be 25 or 30 frames per second or 50/60 *fields*.