Kay Savetz

Screenshot of Dragon Quest title page which features a green dragon flying towards the viewer

A 5 1/4 inch floppy disk labeled DRAGON QUEST 1.1

Chris lent me the APX Dragon Quest disk and I was able to flux image it. Is it now preserved!

Screenshot of Dragon Quest title page which features a green dragon flying towards the viewer

A 5 1/4 inch floppy disk labeled DRAGON QUEST 1.1

Chris lent me the APX Dragon Quest disk and I was able to flux image it. Is it now preserved!

ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast: ANTIC Episode 122 - Atypical Kay ANTIC Episode 122 - Atypical Kay In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-Bit Computer Podcast… we introduce a new format for the news, there’s lots of archiving going on, new software and hardware for ou...

ANTIC — The Atari 8-bit podcast episode 122 is available ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-episod...

and also on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-L6...

I talk about my latest computer history archiving efforts.

Hey Jeri! if you have any urethane left I'd like one.

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

Never change, New York

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.

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

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.

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.

🐠

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

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

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?

My state just handed over the deets 😤

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.

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...

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...

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.

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

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

Microsoft open-sources 6502 BASIC coded by Bill Gates : GOTO 1976

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

66 across: console for the game Pitfall!

ATARI in today’s NYT crossword puzzle

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."

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)

DATs right

Commodore :-/

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

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

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

40th!

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.”

Anxious boy

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”

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

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

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...

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!)
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An email from the TidBITS newsletter viewed on my phone, preface with the message “be careful with this message. The center has not authenticated this message so Gmail can’t verify it actually came from them. Report SPAM? / Looks safe.”

It annoys and/or amuses me every week when I get my TidBITS newsletter in email, when Google warns me to be cAreFuL with this newsletter — which has existed years longer than Google. Of the two entities, TidBITS is more trustworthy by far. @adamengst.bsky.social