How about a slice of nostalgia to rest on your junk?
Written September 12, 2009
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to play Alley Cat ON THE COUCH
My love affair with the work of Ben Heckendorn continues to grow by leaps and bounds, as he’s just posted up photos of his new Atari 800 laptop. Fancy the specs on this sucker? Well too bad, you’re getting them anyhow:
- Atari XEGS motherboard.
- XE 130 RAM expansion built-in.
- MyIDE circuitry and custom OS ROM to use a 2.5″ PATA hard drive.
- Large “shinier” 15″ screen
- Original, “new-old-stock” Atari 800 keyboard.
- Flush-mount cartridge slot.
- Amazing old-school styling!
And it’s the last dot point that really makes this case mod stand out. Old school chic barely describes it’s awesome nature.
Of course he’s had practice. This isn’t actually the first Atari that Ben’s laptop’d. His previous attempts had different asthetics however, one was more debonaire and the other was somewhat space age.
As usual Ben gives the entire run-down of how the unit was constructed and how it looks inside. You may want to start saving if you’re after one of these, by the way!