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Why I Went Back To BASICs And Bought A 32 Year Old Computer

By Darren Smith, Weekend Contributor

atari-800I previously wrote how I fired my corporate pharmacy and went back to basics. In my retrospective longings I decided to “go retro” in many aspects of life.

Some buy old muscle cars, others collect stamps, but I decided to throw out this notion of six month obsolescence of smart phones and other must have contemporary social electronics and return to the renaissance of computer geekdom.  I bought a thirty two year old 8 bit, 6502 based computer–an Atari 800.

An elegant computer, for a more civilized age.

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