The Atari 800 Will Never Be Obsolete

[ER]

http://www.retronaut.com/2014/07/atari-800-ad-it-will-never-become-obsolete/

Ah, hubris, thy name was Atari! Pretty sure we had one of these when I was little.

[LilCerberus]

Wow! I wish I had one!

[Jack]

Up to 48 KB of memory - how could anyone possibly need more than that?!?!

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

I had the Atari 400... I DREAMED of an 800.
-Ed

[FatFreddysCat]

Wow!! Featuring "Action and thinking games" like Basketball, Chess, and... Stock Market??

[Trevor]

Up to 48 KB of memory - how could anyone possibly need more than that?!?!

My home PC has a staggering 40 MB of memory. By the power of Grayskull, I have the powerrrrrr..........

[Flangepart]

And now for something compleatly on topic...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlmzwZXa-Ww

[Josso]

I was going to argue "well you could still use it perfectly well for some things" like 16-bit music composition (or 8? may have been slightly later amiga's I'm thinking of like 1600), word processing, but nah it's a bit of a stretch. I guess this whole "obsolete" thing pokes me in all the wrong places seeing as you can run 1080p and all sorts off half a gig of ram, 700mhz if you put a linux distro on there. Basically: yes moore's law, but no you don't need to go to dell every 2 years and no your place of business does not need an auto-renewing contract for MS office & Windows. If you whacked most people on a good linux GUI they would use it just as easily as they did their windows, it's just preconceptions/propaganda and these stupid contracts that stop everyone using it (despite you're using linux now actually! but I mean client side).

Anyway rant over, this was after moore's law so I dunno what the advertising company are thinking. I will say however: yes you can still use XP for example, just don't expect the 64-bit version to work properly if you upgrade.