{"id":25008,"date":"2020-05-20T19:29:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T23:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=25008"},"modified":"2020-05-27T12:44:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T16:44:38","slug":"computer-palace-atari-8-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/05\/20\/computer-palace-atari-8-bit\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Palace (Atari 8-bit)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines%2FAntic%2FAntic_1985-02&amp;twg_show=Antic_Vol_3-10_1985-02_Money_Mastery_page_0082.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25009\" src=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Antic_Vol_3-10_1985-02_Money_Mastery_page_0082-752x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"752\" height=\"1024\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines%2FAntic%2FAntic_1985-02&amp;twg_show=Antic_Vol_3-10_1985-02_Money_Mastery_page_0082.jpg\">Antic &#8211; February 1985<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/ebay\/AtariXL.html\" width=\"320\" height=\"270\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>I used to love ads like this. I could make whole Christmas lists out of one of these ads. Granted, I had a Commodore 64 and this particular one is for Atari 8-bit computer stuff but I always wanted one of those too.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fun to play with the numbers too. I see that ten single sided 5.25&#8243; disks could be had for the low, low price of $15.95. That&#8217;s 1985 dollars so today that would be at least $20&#8230;probably closer to double but for simplicity&#8217;s sake I&#8217;ll say $20. That&#8217;s about what you can get a spindle of 50 blank DVDs for today. Actually, if you went for the cheapest you could find you could probably get 100 for that much&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s see, 1 single sided 5.25&#8243; floppy disk for the Atari could hold a whopping 90 KB of data. That means it would take more than 52,222 floppies to hold what 1 DVD can hold. So a spindle of 50 would be equivalent to more than 2.6 million floppies. That&#8217;s more than 260,000 ten packs of floppies&#8230;times $20 would be more than $5.2 million&#8230;but I&#8217;m sure you could get a bulk discount&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This particular ad is from the February 1985 issue of Antic, a magazine for Atari computers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Antic &#8211; February 1985 I used to love ads like this. I could make whole Christmas lists out of one of these ads. Granted, I had a Commodore 64 and this particular one is for Atari 8-bit computer stuff but I always wanted one of those too. It&#8217;s fun to play with the numbers too. I see that ten single sided 5.25&#8243; disks could be had for the low, low price of $15.95. That&#8217;s 1985 dollars so today that would be at least $20&#8230;probably closer to double but for simplicity&#8217;s sake I&#8217;ll say $20. That&#8217;s about what you can get a spindle of 50 blank DVDs for today. Actually, if you went for the cheapest you could find you could probably get 100 for that much&#8230; So let&#8217;s see, 1 single sided 5.25&#8243; floppy disk for the Atari could hold a whopping 90 KB of data. That means it would take more than 52,222 floppies to hold what 1 DVD can hold. So a spindle of 50 would be equivalent to more than 2.6 million floppies. That&#8217;s more than 260,000 ten packs of floppies&#8230;times $20 would be more than $5.2 million&#8230;but I&#8217;m sure you could get a bulk discount&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,4],"tags":[229,233,237,238,2362],"class_list":["post-25008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atari-8-bit","category-computer-arcana","tag-atari-400","tag-atari-600xl","tag-atari-800","tag-atari-800xl","tag-retrocomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}