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Everything gets smaller as technology improves. [Rossum] reduced the space needed for an Atari 810 disk drive by building this tiny replacement. Of course it doesn’t use floppy disks, but tak… ...
This is the twee-est disk drive I've ever seen! Those of you who are old enough will remember the Atari 400 and 800 systems, with their separate disk drive, the 810. This Rossum character has put ...
The Atari 8-bits have been somewhat forgotten in this movement towards modern solid state storage, and although a solution does exist, this implementation is a pretty pricey piece of hardware.
Atari 7800+ sales have skyrocketed 2,475% after Amazon slashed the price for Prime Day 2025. Here’s what’s behind the sudden ...
Atari’s first member of the ST line, the 520ST, relied on both an external power supply and a floppy drive. The 1040STf, shown here, integrated those two components into one case and upped the ...
The ABC (Atari Business Computer) 286-30 shipped with a range of CPU and storage choices, offering an 8MHz to 20MHz 286 CPU and a 30MB to 60MB hard disk. It also included Atari’s first PC ...
You aren't looking at a retro microSD card reader, you're looking at an Atari-compatible serial disk drive that just happens to use microSD in lieu of 5.25-inch floppies. In a Zork inspired fit of ...
Disk Jockey is an app that allows you to create disk image files for a variety of retro computers and emulators. Here's how to use it.
Made using a 3D printer, this microSD card reader resembles an Atari 810 floppy disk drive, and can transfer data from 8GB cards to the old Atari it’s hooked up to.
Why I hope the Atari 400 Mini will bring respect to Atari’s most underrated platform Can USB, HDMI, and built-in games raise awareness for a platform overshadowed by the C64?
The Atari 520ST was Atari's first 16-bit salvo in the personal computer wars of the 1980s. A new book by Jamie Lendino shows the tremendous influence the ST had on both gaming and music production.
For the early years of the floppy disk through the 1980s, many computers and devices had no hard drive storage so the floppy disk was the primary way to store information and run applications.