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Re:Atari Means Business with the Mega ST by zabzonk on Sunday June 01, 2025 @09:26AM (#44150701)
Yeah, I forgot about that. But I suppose you didn't need to replug them very often, and it wasn't much worse than plugging into an IBM PC before USB came along. And at least the Atari had lots of useful ports.
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Re:Atari Means Business with the Mega ST by cmrdporcupine on Sunday June 01, 2025 @07:58PM (#44154728)
Mouse cables and ports routinely broke on those machines because of the poor design.

I guess the idea was to have a clean design with cables out of the way, but it really was a bad place for them.

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