{"id":815,"date":"2011-11-07T16:48:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T21:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=815"},"modified":"2011-11-11T16:56:21","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T21:56:21","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-father-and-son-at-the-atari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/815\/retro-scan-of-the-week-father-and-son-at-the-atari","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Father and Son at the Atari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/atari_800_basic_manual_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/atari_800_basic_manual_small.jpg\" alt=\"Atari 400\/800 BASIC Reference Manual Cover - 1979\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Stranded in a jungle with only a desk, a cup of coffee, and an Atari 800.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always enjoyed the illustration style found on the earliest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/604\" target=\"_blank\">Atari 400\/800<\/a> instruction manuals, such as the one here for the Basic Reference Manual.  I&#8217;ve included an extra large scan this time so you can enjoy the detail up close.<\/p>\n<p>Does anybody know the name of the artist who did them?  I&#8217;ll admit I haven&#8217;t looked very hard.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, this manual was written by River Raid creator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/800\" target=\"_blank\">Carol Shaw<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Atari 400\/800 BASIC Reference Manual, circa 1979, cover ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> Have you ever programmed with your dad?  Tell us about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stranded in a jungle with only a desk, a cup of coffee, and an Atari 800. I&#8217;ve always enjoyed the illustration style found on the earliest Atari 400\/800 instruction manuals, such as the one here for the Basic Reference Manual. I&#8217;ve included an extra large scan this time so you can enjoy the detail up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27,26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","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=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}