{"id":439,"date":"2008-03-17T13:01:19","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T18:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=439"},"modified":"2008-03-17T13:20:16","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T18:20:16","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-atari-2600-computer-attachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/439\/retro-scan-of-the-week-atari-2600-computer-attachment","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Atari 2600 Computer Attachment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/2600computer_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/2600computer_small.jpg\" alt=\"Atari 2600 Computer Attachment\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Atari announced this ambitious computer add-on for their popular Atari 2600 game console just as it was bleeding to death from record losses.  Sadly for us collectors, this unit never went into production &#8212; although the wisdom of releasing such a device is highly debatable.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Discussion topic of the week:<\/strong> What if Atari had included a built-in keyboard with the 2600 at its launch in 1977?  How would it have changed the nature of the system?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ Scanned from Atari Age, May-June 1983 ]<\/em><\/center><\/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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atari announced this ambitious computer add-on for their popular Atari 2600 game console just as it was bleeding to death from record losses. Sadly for us collectors, this unit never went into production &#8212; although the wisdom of releasing such a device is highly debatable. Discussion topic of the week: What if Atari had included [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,26,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","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=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}