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content/museum/atari-falcon-030-microbox.md

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   - title: ATARI FALCON MICROBOX
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        source : [Daves Old Computers](http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield)
 
       **... READ THE ONLINE VERSION BY CLICKING BELOW :**
-  comments:
-  - author: AEX (Ireland)
-    date: Monday 10th January 2011
-    text: |-
-      Great site!
-
-      This was to be the new case for the Falcon 030.
-
-      The Falcon Microbox is part of the official Sony PS2 Patent mostly pertaining to ergonomic design. All tooling and parts were ready for this case to be turned on but Atari abandoned the computer business in favour of supporting the Jaguar gaming platform. An 040 version was also designed to motherboard stage and a project called "Painter" utilising Jaguar tech was proposed. Another case design was found in proto form and it was based on the "Painter" spec, but it is unclear if this was another "Microbox" design or specifically for "Painter".
-  - author: Sco77y
-    date: Friday 28th May 2010
-    text: Your right about the PS2 case design, they (Sony) bought the rights to the "GRILL" section if memory serves correctly..? I believe in the time the PS2 was launched Atari was nothing more than a rights and patents company.. (I.e still holding all the copyright and patent designs)... It was either this design or the jaguar design grill section that SONY Bought the rights to use? (Very vague but there is truth in this somewhere!) Peace out..
-  - author: Malcolm Ramage (United Kingdon)
-    date: Thursday 21st April 2011
-    text: This was supposed to be what the falcon should have been all along. The data and address buses were to be full 32 bit and a proper 68030 expansion bus with access to the 68030 burst mode for fast data transfer. The picture here is of one of the case designs, I have another picture of a case design with a CD ROM drive in the top and an Atari logo embossed onto the front. This may have been for the later proposed 68040 model but to be honest, I cant really be sure.
-  - author: Nathan (USA)
-    date: Wednesday 11th February 2009
-    text: I saw one of these about a year ago on ebay. No one knew what it was so it only ended up selling for about 400 dollars. It was complete, with case and motherboard, and I am sure it worked.
-  - author: Desert Eagle (Brazil)
-    date: Sunday 17th October 2004
-    text: Anyone have more pictures of Microbox? It's a very interesting system ^\_^
-  - author: Ben Booth (Leeds/UK)
-    date: Monday 12th August 2002
-    text: |-
-      It looks very similar to a PS2\
-      Looks like Sony's contemporary design was not that comtemporary after all!!
-  - author: Markus (Boston)
-    date: Wednesday 13rd March 2002
-    text: |-
-      Wow! I have never seen a picture of the Microbox.... It really existed! :)\
-      Nice!\
-      To bad ATARI is gone .....
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