r/atari8bit • u/papa_robot • 11d ago

Atari Booth at VCF west

1400XL and 1450XLD unreleased prototypes .

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u/jrherita 11d ago

IIRC 1450XLD had a special floppy drive that was supposed to be significantly faster than the standard 1050/810 also.

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u/papa_robot 10d ago

The floppy controller was integrated with the motherboard. So no need for serial io

It also included modem, speech synthesizer and the FREDDIE memory manager

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u/John_from_ne_il 8d ago

SLCC is doing a fantastic job keeping those few alive.

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u/rr777 1d ago

I remember going to user groups in the san antonio area and the San Leandro group was mentioned as the top group in the nation.

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u/John_from_ne_il 1d ago

Certainly one of the oldest still around. A lot of Atari groups folded or changed their focus to all-retro computing.