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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 6d

Never change, New York

United Rentals equipment where the phone number has been graffitied from 1-800-UR RENTS to 1-800-UR PENIS

Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 19d

I still have my lambdamoo account. I saw the other day that they recently released a new version of the software that runs it. Which is amazing.

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 20d

But it can see in 3D because it has two Is

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 20d

There’s a retrocomputing newsletter that I want to like. On the most recent issue cover, there is an AI generated Atari computer that’s just so terrible. If you have a hobby, do the hobby. Don’t let an LLM create it for you. I’d rather see a 3 year-old’s crayon drawing over this monstrosity.

AI-generated atari 800XL. The colors are right, but the shape isn’t right, and the keyboard has blurry buttons. The keycaos are wrong. There are two letter I keys. Etc.

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 25d

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 27d

When someone is trying to hack my Facebook account I'm secretly rooting for them. Please take away the misery

Screenshot of a Facebook password reset email. "One more step to change your password"

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 27d

Hey wow. My buddy and I have been working for years to archive all the APX programs. Can you image that disk? (Or lend it to me so I can?) did it come with a manual?

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 27d

My state just handed over the deets 😤

Reposted by Kay Savetz

xot @xot.bsky.social · 28d

This issue is notable for an Atari BASIC program, written by Tom Hudson, that displays 3D graphics. Two years later, Hudson would release Cyber Studio CAD-3D for Atari ST, and a few years after that, it was reborn as 3D Studio for DOS, and finally, the ubiquitous 3DS MAX.

Gaming Alexandria @gamingalexandria.bsky.social · 28d

A.N.A.L.O.G. Computing/Analog Computing – No. 16 – February 1984 has been scanned in 600DPI by @thestacks.ca. Enjoy! www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2025/09/a...

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 28d

New episode of ANTIC: The Atari 8-Bit Podcast just dropped! Find out the latest news in the world of 8-bit Atari computers! Hear me say "dongle" in a way that makes my co-hosts uncomfortable! ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-episod...

ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast: ANTIC Episode 121 - Dongle Disaster

ANTIC Episode 121 - Dongle Disaster In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… Special guest Brent Carroll joins as we bring you the Atari news and narrowly avoid disaster with our don...

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · Sep 17

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · Sep 10

Harry Stewart (ex-Atari employee who programmed PILOT, WSFN, and other stuff) has died. His daughter sent me his Atari documents. Some of these I scanned years ago when he lent them to me. Others seem to be unpreserved.

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · Sep 10

In 1984 someone had their Atari 800 repoed 😭
(Also, what's a Vector 2600?)

Ad in The Daytona Beach News-Journal - April 27 1994. PUBLIC AUCTION - Vector 2600 Computer - Comet II Printer - Atari 800 with communicator package.

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · Sep 4

Microsoft open-sources its 6502 BASIC from 1976 www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m...

Microsoft open-sources 6502 BASIC coded by Bill Gates

: GOTO 1976

www.theregister.com

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · Sep 4

ATARI in today’s NYT crossword puzzle

66 across: console for the game Pitfall!

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · Aug 27

My automated searches for Atari 800 turn up weird things sometimes. Uploaded to @archive.org yesterday: Le Journal De Mickey - Album N°130 #1858 (2 février 1988)

archive.org/details/jour...

(translation in alt text)

In French: A computer soon...
A few weeks ago, Vincent was wondering how to persuade his parents to buy him a computer.
Many of you responded, and here's your advice.
"I had the same problem as you about a computer. My parents told me that when I got at least 15 out of 20 in a modern language, they'd put a hundred francs in a box for me. So, eventually, I managed to buy one, and now I'm typing away on an Atari 800 XL. You could possibly suggest this solution to them.
Katia Volpatti, Saint Marcel."

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · Aug 21

DATs right

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · Aug 21

Commodore :-/

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · Aug 21

I will give it to you, if you give a generous contribution to the Internet Archive

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · Aug 21

It followed me home, mom, can I keep it? I promise to feed and play with it every day.

A pile of three Atari eight but computers, two Atari STs and various old software displayed on the floor

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · Jul 23

40th!

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · Jul 13

Anxious boy

A classified ad from the May 19, 1989 issue of the Worcester News under the section “Computers, Computer Games.” The ad reads: “WANTED Computer ATARI 800XL or ATARI 1040ST. Please phone anxious boy. Leigh Sinton 32371 or Ledbury 677.”

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · Jul 9

My newspapers.com search for "Atari 800" turns up weird stuff from time to time

A 1983 “Shoe” comic strip from The Sanford Herald shows two bird characters discussing computers. One says, “I just don’t know which desktop computer is right for me and my system. There’s IBM, Xerox, Apple II, Atari 800…" The other replies, you oughta start out with something basic…” The punchline follows in the final panel: “Like a Dumpster I”

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · Jul 8

I mean… the Atari 800 was engineered to resemble the Selectric … so it comes a little close?

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · Jun 27

Look at these beautiful photos, recently digitized from slides, of the 1981 communications exhibit at the Capital Children’s Museum. (Featuring many photos of kids using Atari 8-bit computers!)
archive.org/details/ccm-...

Capital Children's Museum Communications Exhibit photos 1981 : Mark Tuschman : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Photos from the Capital Children's Museum Communications Exhibit which opened November 1981. Images digitized from slides in June 2025.Photos by Mark...

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