Raw footage inside Sears with Atari 800 and 2600 (1982) [video]

Re:Raw footage inside Sears with Atari 800 and 2600 (1982) [... by Jemm on Monday August 01, 2022 @07:48AM (#32304667)

My first access to a personal computer was in a department store where they had Commodore PETs on display. Sales guy didn't know how to use them so was happy to let us stand there for hours playing with them.

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Re:Raw footage inside Sears with Atari 800 and 2600 (1982) [... by zikduruqe on Monday August 01, 2022 @10:10AM (#32306168)

We use to think we were hackers and would write up BASIC code something like:

    10 PRINT CHR$(147)
    20 X = 1
    30 FOR X+1
    30 PRINT X
    40 GOTO 20

Then run away cackling as the numbers kept printing thinking that somehow it would run forever.

(or something like that... it was 40 years ago)

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Re:Raw footage inside Sears with Atari 800 and 2600 (1982) [... by technothrasher on Monday August 01, 2022 @12:09PM (#32308162)

You need your knuckles rapped for that code. It reminds me of the "spot the errors" assignments my teacher in high school computer class would give us ;-)

As for the department store computer displays, I do remember K-Mart would have the Atari 2600's running in some kind of demo mode so it would reboot whatever game it was playing after about 5 minutes. I learned I could just barely win "Superman" before the reboot, if I started it right away.

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