An Atari 800XL. Had a 1050 hard drive that was slow even then and only gave us single-sided “enhanced†density. We turned off verification to double the speed and cut a second notch in our floppies to double storage capacity. Saved up a year to get an XM301 modem for $40 and then the Silver Samurai and Blue Phoenix were born. First 1027 Letter Quality (cough) printer spit out text at a blazing 20 characters per second but broke. Had to borrow a friend’s which also sputtered but not before printing out the infamous European History timeline on some sweet blue fanfold paper.
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