{"id":260,"date":"2007-01-15T11:12:43","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T16:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/260"},"modified":"2007-01-15T11:21:40","modified_gmt":"2007-01-15T16:21:40","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-and-nowthe-atari-calculator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/260\/retro-scan-of-the-week-and-nowthe-atari-calculator","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">Retro Scan of the Week:<\/span> And Now&#8230;The Atari Calculator"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"caption\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/atari_calc_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/atari_calc_small.jpg\" alt=\"Atari Calculator\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption_text\">In the heart of every Atari, whether it be a computer or a game system, is nothing more than a glorified calculator.  But chances are that it doesn&#8217;t have a durable folding case or &#8220;32 step auto recall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I bought this Atari calculator a few years ago as a curiosity.  I always wanted one back when I was an Atari freak in the early &#8217;90s.  It remains as you see it, within its creased blister pack.  It&#8217;s so much more fun to look at than to use, especially since a dead llama could cough up the equivalent in terms of capability these days.  And unfortunately, the only game you could play on this Atari is typing in &#8220;1134&#8221; and turning it upside down for a laugh.<\/p>\n<p>Anybody else have an Atari calculator out there?  Tell us about it!<\/p>\n<p><small><em>If you use this image on your site, please support &#8220;Retro Scan of the Week&#8221; by giving us obvious credit for the original scan and entry.  Thanks!<\/em><\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the heart of every Atari, whether it be a computer or a game system, is nothing more than a glorified calculator. But chances are that it doesn&#8217;t have a durable folding case or &#8220;32 step auto recall.&#8221; I bought this Atari calculator a few years ago as a curiosity. I always wanted one back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4,7,13,24,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-collecting","category-computer-collecting","category-computer-info-and-history","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-humor","category-retro-scan-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}