Hi,

My name is David Matthews,I live in Ireland,My ebay ID is mathu8559MATHU 8559

I bought my frist Atari in 1982,It was a 800XLwith a 1010 tape drive,The 1010 did not last long because it was to slow,so about a year later i bought a 1050 drive,they were the good old days,I use to get PAGE 6 magazine every month and quickly turn to the ads section and see if there was any people looking for Atari penpals,which really meant swoping games so i had contacts all over the world sometime i would have to wait for up to 3 weeks for the disks to come in the mail,not like today!!(email).

800 XL(which cost £399.00 which is about $490.00)

However in 1984 i bought a Happy chip for the 1050 drive which meant loading those programs up to 5 times faster it also gave you a way to back up protected software.....wow

HAPPY CHIP(which cost £160.00 which is about $220.00)

I am sad to say in 1987 i sold my Atari system which consisted of, 1 800xl and 2-1050 and over 500 disks(what a fool i was only to have that system now.......:>(

So in 1998 i bought a PC and got on the net i could not belive my eyes,their was so many Atari users still out there,So that is when it started all over again for me.

I went to all the car boot sales i could and bought any thing with Atari on it(see my hardware list)but it was only hardware i was getting so i had to go to EBAY to buy the software.(see my 400/800 list)After that i started to buy Jaguar & Lynx hardware and software.

THE ATARI JAGUAR.....(frist 64-bit console ever made)You can pick one of these up on ebay for about $50.00..