Yep same nonsense on the Atari.

Yep same nonsense on the Atari. Computer vendors back then really did frustrating things around peripherals. It was bad enough they were so expensive, but external disks, monitors, mice, RAM everything was proprietary, which made it worse. Eventually things settled on SCSI, then IDE, but there were many years there where it was wild west on standards for all of the above. I just bought an Atari TT off eBay. It will nicely drive a VGA monitor, but not for its highest resolution (1280x960), for which it needs a special ("ECL") monitor. An adapter from that to VGA is $175 from a hobbyist -- almost as much as I paid for the computer.

Posted by cmrdporcupine on Apr 15, 2015, 3:30 AM

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