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What 2600 Prototype Hardware Would You Most Like To Own?

Started by Tempest, Aug 31 2004 7:54 AM

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Poll: What 2600 Prototype Hardware Would You Most Like To Own? (4 member(s) have cast votes)

What 2600 Prototype Hardware Would You Most Like To Own?

  1. Atari CX-2000 (5 votes [13.89%])

    Percentage of vote: 13.89%

  2. Atari 2700 (13 votes [36.11%])

    Percentage of vote: 36.11%

  3. PGP-1 (7 votes [19.44%])

    Percentage of vote: 19.44%

  4. Mindlink Controller (4 votes [11.11%])

    Percentage of vote: 11.11%

  5. Keyboard Add-On / Graduate (4 votes [11.11%])

    Percentage of vote: 11.11%

  6. Voice Commander (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  7. Other (3 votes [8.33%])

    Percentage of vote: 8.33%

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#1 Tempest OFFLINE  

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Posted Tue Aug 31, 2004 7:54 AM

Discuss.

#2 Mitch OFFLINE  

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Posted Tue Aug 31, 2004 10:40 AM

7800 Keyboard. :D

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Posted Tue Aug 31, 2004 11:04 AM

7800 Keyboard

7800 5200 Adapter (Slam Pam)

#4 Dutchman2000 OFFLINE  

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Posted Tue Aug 31, 2004 11:04 AM

7800 Keyboard

7800 5200 Adapter (Slam Pam)

#5 Marco OFFLINE  

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Posted Tue Aug 31, 2004 11:09 AM

Focus, people, focus! This is about the one and only King of Consoles :D

Cheers,
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Posted Tue Aug 31, 2004 12:38 PM

Gotta go with the PGP-1. I've wanted one ever since I saw Al Backiel's.

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Posted Tue Aug 31, 2004 12:58 PM

there is a certain look of the 2700 system that i like. kinda a morph of a 5200 into something that is overally huge. thats my vote for the one proto i want. yet i have a strange fondness to the atari 1450 XLDthat never got released

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Posted Tue Aug 31, 2004 2:15 PM

Marco said:

Focus, people, focus! This is about the one and only King of Consoles  :D

Cheers,
Marco

OK, send me a 7800 keyboard and I'll send you a 2600. Deal? :P

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Posted Tue Aug 31, 2004 2:38 PM

Tempest said:

Gotta go with the PGP-1.  I've wanted one ever since I saw Al Backiel's.
It's nifty, but I don't need one thanks to the CC2. I can either drop hacked images on the card, or load them through the serial port. So far, my only hack has been an infinite lives hack for Montezuma's Revenge.

Ditto for the Colecovision, since I have an ICE with 64K of overlay RAM (16x4K blocks), which even lets me override its BIOS ROM.

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Posted Tue Aug 31, 2004 2:57 PM

I like the 2700 just cause it looks cool. Completely shallow reason but I'm stickin' to it. :P

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Posted Tue Aug 31, 2004 2:57 PM

atari70s said:

there is a certain look of the 2700 system that i like. kinda a morph of a 5200 into something that is overally huge. thats my vote for the one proto i want. yet i have a strange fondness to the atari 1450 XLDthat never got released

Well the 5200 is a morph of the 2700....

Actually the 2700 case came first, then the 3200 was desgned and the 5200 came out. The 2800 case would then become the 7800.

The "wedge" truly is a symbol of the Atari line of consoles... even the Atari 2100 (the 2600jr) took the old 2600 look and turned it into the wedge look too.

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Posted Tue Aug 31, 2004 4:31 PM

Mitch said:

Marco said:

Focus, people, focus! This is about the one and only King of Consoles  :D

Cheers,
Marco

OK, send me a 7800 keyboard and I'll send you a 2600. Deal? :P

DEAL!

Cheers,
Marco <-- goes out to manufacture a 7800-ish keyboard :D

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Posted Tue Aug 31, 2004 4:47 PM

there are so many i've never actually seen for sale in the marketplace. like the game brain or the kee games atari or the color vectrex. i would imagine each of these would be much more expensive than the atari 2700 yet i don't think i'd trade away my 2700 for any one of them unless i knew i could somehow find another. its just a very cool system.

how about the original brown box ody 1?

well i think i'd have to give up the atari 2700 then.

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#14 Marco OFFLINE  

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Posted Tue Aug 31, 2004 4:49 PM

Buyatari said:

how about the original brown box ody 1?

I think you'd have to kill the caretaker / owner - he's a very dedicated man :D

Cheers,
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Posted Tue Aug 31, 2004 4:55 PM

Of the ones you listed, I guess I'd be most interested in the 2700 or Mindlink, although I'd much rather get my hands on an Atari Game Brain System or the Atari Cosmos. :D

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Posted Tue Aug 31, 2004 4:58 PM

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I think you'd have to kill the caretaker / owner - he's a very dedicated man

you mean the guard(s) at the smithsonian?

i'd need to put together one heck of a team to pull that one off and then we would have to share it anyway. better just leave it where it is at so all can enjoy.

#17 Marco OFFLINE  

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Posted Tue Aug 31, 2004 5:07 PM

Ah, I lost track then. I thought it resided somewhere in France. Looks like I'm getting a bit out of touch ;)

Cheers,
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Posted Tue Aug 31, 2004 8:40 PM

Curt Vendel said:

atari70s said:

there is a certain look of the 2700 system that i like. kinda a morph of a 5200 into something that is overally huge. thats my vote for the one proto i want. yet i have a strange fondness to the atari 1450 XLDthat never got released

Well the 5200 is a morph of the 2700....

Actually the 2700 case came first, then the 3200 was desgned and the 5200 came out. The 2800 case would then become the 7800.

The "wedge" truly is a symbol of the Atari line of consoles... even the Atari 2100 (the 2600jr) took the old 2600 look and turned it into the wedge look too.

Curt

but if i remember correctly wasnt the chip for the atari 3200 had a chip called the 3600, strange. would have there been an atari 3600?

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Posted Thu Sep 9, 2004 4:19 AM

Buyatari said:

the kee games atari

My first thought when seeing this thread .. was this one also! The Kee Games Atari 2600 deck with the cool rainbow colors! I saw it at John Hardie's house in NJ and I could not believe my eyes! So my vote was for "Other"

Rob Mitchell, Atlanta, GA

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Posted Sun Sep 12, 2004 1:09 PM

A My First Computer/Graduate keyboard add-on. I was suckered by the hype in Atari Age magazine when I was a kid, and was desperate for a computer of my own. What is odd is that I had experience and access to a slew of actual computers of the day (TI-99/4a, Apple II, TRS-80 Coco, VIC-20), yet I wanted a MFC. Ended up getting the Atari 600xl, and was always disappointed that I never got the MFC.

The computer add-ons announced by Entex (Piggyback) or Unitronics (The Expander) would have been pretty keen, too.

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Posted Sun Sep 12, 2004 3:47 PM

Above all, I would pick the 2700. Not only is it a pretty cool idea for its time, but who can resist its sleek design? 8)
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