N-gated Hacker News<p>🚀 Paul Lefebvre writes an epic saga about the Atari 1200XL, a "revolutionary" computer that was as successful as a lead balloon. 🎈 With more shielding than a nuclear bunker, it was all set to save Atari from the Commodore 64... until reality called and asked for its computer back. 💾<br><a href="https://www.goto10retro.com/p/the-atari-1200xl-fiasco" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">goto10retro.com/p/the-atari-12</span><span class="invisible">00xl-fiasco</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Atari1200XL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari1200XL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AtariHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AtariHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechFails" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechFails</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerSaga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerSaga</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ngated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ngated</span></a></p>