The tank-built original Atari 800 offical name poll

[sack-c0s]

Someone was going to do this eventually, so why not now? Democracy in action and the result will be respected as the true opinion of the people*

 

I assume for the purposes of this thread this is the machine whose name we're talking about

 

 

*Void where prohibited by law, Rupert Murdoch reserves the right to publish his own result overriding this one as sees fit. Your voicemail is at risk if you do not keep up compliance.

[Heaven/TQA]

I honestly was under the impression that the discussion in the other forum is a fake or joke one?

[Rybags]

Show me a single internal Atari document, piece of advertising or promotional brochure from 1979 to 1982 put out by Atari that calls it the "Jay Miner 800" and I'll consider calling it that.

 

Obviously, none exists, so I'll keep on calling it "Atari 800" or just "800".

 

For me, the opinion of one or two noobs vs a community of hundreds/thousands, barely rates as a drop in the ocean.

 

If they don't like it, they're welcome to leave... it's not like it'd be any loss to the rest of us.

Edited July 26, 2011 by Rybags

[sack-c0s]

yeah - I pretty much thought they were on to a loser with that one. I just thought it might be nice to quantify fail.

[bandit]

I have seen people starting to call The 800 "Jay miner 800" I bought mine in 1980 As The Atari 800, No need to change it.

[+wood_jl]

I voted "Atari 800."

 

However, would have also considered "original 800" or "Big Beige Bastard."

 

As Metalguy pointed out, the original design had CTIA, and since that was only the earliest machines, they could be considered "MoreJayMiner800s" and the GTIA-equipped machines "ALittleBit(Slightly)LessJayMiner800," and all those that followed (XL/XE) could be "ALittleBit(Slightly)LessJayMiner(thanCTIAmachinesButJustAsMuchJayMinerAsGTIA800)800XL", etc.

[Bryan]

Nice typewriter. Where does the paper go?

[+Roydea6]

I didn't vote because I don't feel that we should even indulge the person naming it wrongly or the possibilty of a name change.

[mimo]

Why the poll?

It is an 800, SIMPLE AS THAT

there is no xl or xe suffix so what is the question?

[svenski]

Well I thought we should to this properly, and made a few phone calls.

 

Please send in your preferred name to:

 

Colleen Adams

Atari 800 Name Suggestions

Atari Incorporated

1265 Borregas Avenue

Sunnyvale

California 94086

[+wood_jl]

Why the poll?

It is an 800, SIMPLE AS THAT

there is no xl or xe suffix so what is the question?

 

Maybe if you (as your signature indicates) asked for a cartridge door for a "JayMiner400" then you'd have one by now. It's not clear exactly what you're looking for, when you're so vague about it.

[+wood_jl]

Well I thought we should to this properly, and made a few phone calls.

 

Please send in your preferred name to:

 

Colleen Adams

Atari 800 Name Suggestions

Atari Incorporated

1265 Borregas Avenue

Sunnyvale

California 94086

 

Anybody have any pictures of this person, if real? She better be "hot." What about "Candy?" And is/was there ever a person named "Stella," while we're at it. Pics?

[Heaven/TQA]

and the pic of ANTIC please...

[Rybags]

AFAIK, Freddie is the only one of the common custom chips that's not an acronym.

[+Faicuai]

I honestly was under the impression that the discussion in the other forum is a fake or joke one?

 

Tst, tst, tst.. Seems that some folks seem particularly desperate.

 

Watch how their paper-thin egos consume them...

 

 

F.

[sloopy]

/me looks around...

 

nothing of interest, or even importance...

 

/me wanders away...

 

sloopy.

[Bryan]

AFAIK, Freddie is the only one of the common custom chips that's not an acronym.

 

Financial Requirements Encouraged Developing a Discrete IC Eliminator

 

or maybe

 

Financial Requirements Eventually Demanded a Discrete IC Eliminator

Edited July 26, 2011 by Bryan

[Rybags]

 

Watch how their paper-thin egos consume them...

 

F.

 

The only egos at stake are the ones of the people who originally named the computer.

 

I doubt they care much for the opinion of someone who's probably never created a meaningful program or hardware addon for their machine.

[sack-c0s]

AFAIK, Freddie is the only one of the common custom chips that's not an acronym.

 

Financial Requirements Encouraged Developing a Discrete IC Eliminator

 

or maybe

 

Financial Requirements Eventually Demanded a Discrete IC Eliminator

 

Financial Results Expect Drop Down In Expenses?

[Bryan]

AFAIK, Freddie is the only one of the common custom chips that's not an acronym.

 

Financial Requirements Encouraged Developing a Discrete IC Eliminator

 

or maybe

 

Financial Requirements Eventually Demanded a Discrete IC Eliminator

 

Financial Results Expect Drop Down In Expenses?

That works too. The main purpose of Freddie was to eliminate a handful of other logic components from the motherboard and the delay line used for DRAM access. Its presence isn't really felt by the user.

[+Faicuai]

(...) Its presence isn't really felt by the user.

 

That does not seem accurate (at all), though:

 

http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/185028-found-an-issue-on-instability-effects-on-a-800-xl-with-freddie/page__view__findpost__p__2327265

 

F.

[MEtalGuy66]

(...) Its presence isn't really felt by the user.

 

That does not seem accurate (at all), though:

 

http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/185028-found-an-issue-on-instability-effects-on-a-800-xl-with-freddie/page__view__findpost__p__2327265

 

F.

 

The absense(board layout error) of a motherboard trace is what the user "feels the presence of" in that instance, Faicuai...

 

Cut/remove some of the decoupling caps from the delay/dram timing logic on a non-freddy machine, and you'll get similar problems.. That's no fault of the Freddy Chip, itself.

 

The level of intelligence here is truly "staggering"..

[UNIXcoffee928]

Faicuai=Troll

[MEtalGuy66]

Faicuai=Troll

I second that vote!

[Tempest]

Aaaand we're done here.

 

Tempest