The Atari 800XL - an un-deserved also ran

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The Atari 8 bit line of computers didn't really do better than also rans in the markets they were released in, sometimes for good reason, but the 800XL was, arguably, the one that deserved least to fail.

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The screen I got for it: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Elegoo-UNO-R3-2-8-Inches-TFT-Touch-Screen-with-SD-Card-Socket-AMAZING-PRICE/164010366231

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