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1200XL Owners Club (serial tracker)
Started by kheller2, May 17 2007 9:14 PM
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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:
??? 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.
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.
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