Paul (Goto 10)Apr 22

Inside the Atari 1200XL

https://www.goto10retro.com/p/inside-the-atari-1200xl

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Inside the Atari 1200XL

I recently purchased an Atari 800 collection on Facebook Marketplace and the seller was kind enough to throw in a non-working Atari 1200XL that they also had.

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@lefebvre
Re "much better than any 800XL keyboard I’ve tried":

You probably already know it but there were 4 different types of keyboards for the #Atari800XL, and you may have been just unlucky so far.

Here is an overview of the different variants:

https://forums.atariage.com/topic/105170-600800xl-keyboard-variants/

It says type 4 were similar to the 1200XL feeling.

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600/800XL Keyboard variants

Hi Often i hear about the cheap and bad XL keyboards, and many people say the XL keyboards were almost as good as the 1200XL keyboard (which is built completely different to the 600/800XL keyboards). How can this opinions differ so hard? Well, there are many different keyboards out there! When i ...

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Show threadElias MårtensonApr 23
@eiZen @lefebvre clearly the Atari 400 keyboard is peak keyboard.
Show threadPaul (Goto 10)Apr 23
@loke @eiZen Peak keyboard pain!
Show threadPaul (Goto 10)Apr 23
@eiZen I’ll have to dig out my 800XL to see if I can identify the keyboard it has.