exxos's Atari, Amiga & retro forum

Aloha @all,

my name is Rüdiger and I'm living in germany in a small village near Bielefeld.

I'm into retro since it wasn't even retro: my first Atari is a 260ST and I bought it shiny new in 1987 :D

At that time I had to choose between i86 (8MHz), a Casio FP1000 (Z80, 4MHZ, CP/M) and an Atari.
We used these Casios at school - but they were damn slow and had 64KByte ... pfff

So I bought an Atari 260ST which got instant upgrades:

• from TOS on disk to TOS 1.02 on ROM

• 1 MByte RAM

• SF314 floppy

Besides using that machine at school, I wrote my first commercially sold program in GFA Basic in 1988.
Even at university I used that Atari: as a student of computer science I had absolutely no money for a fancy TT/Falcon/i386/i486...

In the mid-90s I was drawn to the "dark side" an bought (for work ;) ) an i386 & i486 - but since a couple of years I got back to the 16bit-era and bought some Ataris and Amigas.
I have fun to keep them alive (or bring back to life ;) ) and sometimes pimping and upgrading them to the "max".
But my first machine is in "original condition" from 1987...

So - thanks for having me here!

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Welcome to the forum!

Hi, are you sure that you come from Bielefeld, according to Wilsberg it is only a legend and doesn't really exist.

russellnash wrote: 17 Mar 2023 08:40 Hi, are you sure that you come from Bielefeld, according to Wilsberg it is only a legend and doesn't really exist.

:D

I can positively confirm, that Bielefeld exists!
We lived there a couple of years before we moved nearby!

Another myth debunked on the Exxos forum! :)

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I am based in Gütersloh ...

frank.lukas wrote: 17 Mar 2023 18:04 I am based in Gütersloh ...

Yeah - in fact I stumbled upon your name and location quite a few times ;)