Atari’s XEGS couldn't face the existing competition hence the console and its feature gathered a moot presence that eventually rendered it to be useless.

There's also a 2.5-inch PATA hard-drive from which you can load ROMs without needing to mess about with a tape deck, a 15-inch LCD display and an Atari XEGS motherboard. Ben even made sure the ...

[Boisy]’s goal for his Liber809 project was simple: Put a 6809 CPU in an Atari XEGS and get NitrOS-9, the Unix-like OS for the TRS-80 CoCo running on his Frankenputer.