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technologizer.com - 1/20/2009

Atari’s 1984 Touch Tablet: A Retro-Unboxing

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The next time you use your shiny new Wacom tablet and Adobe Photoshop CS4, think back to a time before time–a time before blends, morphs, heal brushes, and 10-megapixel images. A time like 1984, which, for computer graphics, was darker than the Dark Ages. It was a time when you could buy ...

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technologizer.com - 1/20/2009

Atari’s 1984 Touch Tablet: A Retro-Unboxing | Technologizer

— technologizer.com — 1984 Atari Touch Tablet The Tablet in Action Fancying myself somewhat of an artiste, I decided to... try my hand at drawing some various-colored circles and rectangles on the screen. It worked. After three hours with AtariArtist, I came to the ... (more) Atari’s 1984 Touch Tablet: A ...

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engadget.com - 1/21/2009

Atari Touch Tablet unboxed 25 years after the fact

— engadget.com — Are you an artist wishing to unchain the shackles of traditional media, looking for a way to... catapult yourself and your work into the 20th Century? A chap named Benj Edwards has been kind enough to unbox for us Atari's Touch Tablet, a classic ... (more) Atari Touch Tablet unboxed 25 years after the fact

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Atari Touch Tablet unboxed 25 years after the fact
Engadget — ... Are you an artist wishing to unchain the shackles of traditional media, looking for a way to catapult yourself and your work into the 20th Century? A chap named Benj Edwards has been kind enough to unbox for us Atari's Touch Tablet, a classic piece of kit from ...

Retro unboxing of the Atari Touch Tablet
CrunchGear — Technologizer just unboxed their Atari CX77 touch tablet, one of the earliest consumer grade touchpads ever released. I used to have this thing and I loved it. I remember trying to draw a naked woman on my 800XL - in 8-bit color, no less - using Atari Paint (??). I can only imagine why my parents paid $89.95 for this thing back in the day - I seem to remember it was on sale. Truly amazing tech.

Retromodo: A Modern Day Unboxing of a 1984 Atari Touch Tablet [Retromodo]
Gizmodo — ... Personally, I'm not much into unboxing unless I'm the one doing the honors, but a modern day unboxing of a 25 year old Atari CX77 Touch Tablet is like opening up a time capsule. ...

Unboxing a 1984 Atari Touch Tablet
Retro Thing — ... is the AtariArtist software on cartridge, which we’ll be playing with in a moment. Plugging in the cartridge, I was presented with the main menu of the AtariArtist illustration software. To make more room for the tablet, I pushed my 130XE to the side.  Luckily, it didn’t fall over until after I finished taking photos. Here’s a shot of the AtariArtist menu up close. Most of the options presented here are self-explanatory [lame Britney Spears joke omitted]." Atari’s 1984 Touch Tablet: How not to present a Retro-Unboxing [thanks, Silver ...