{"id":847,"date":"2012-02-13T12:32:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T17:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=847"},"modified":"2012-02-13T12:51:15","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T17:51:15","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-atari-400-800","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/847\/retro-scan-of-the-week-atari-400-800","title":{"rendered":"[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Atari Personal Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Atari<\/a>More color. More sound. More overwrought plastic and aluminum enclosures.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

If you haven’t noticed by now, I love the Atari 800<\/a>. It was my first computer platform. And the Atari 400, interestingly enough, was the first computer I ever “owned” — my father let me have a cast off 400 because my brother claimed the 800 as his domain. I couldn’t do much but play Galaxian<\/em> on it — hooked up to a fuzzy 10″ black and white TV — but I cherished it anyway.<\/p>\n

So I’ve written about Atari’s 8-bit computers a lot. I took an 800 apart<\/a> for PC World a few years ago, and the platform has been the subject of numerous<\/a> Retro Scans of the Week<\/a>. But I just realized that I had never posted a scan of an original Atari 400 or Atari 800 advertisement. So here you go. This is an early ad that hails from the launch of the system in November 1979.<\/p>\n

I thought an Atari scan would be appropriate since I am celebrating the 40th anniversary of Atari<\/a> a little early.<\/p>\n

[ From BYTE Magazine, November 1979, p.15 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> Have you ever used an Atari 8-bit computer for anything other than games? Tell us about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More color. More sound. More overwrought plastic and aluminum enclosures. If you haven’t noticed by now, I love the Atari 800. It was my first computer platform. And the Atari 400, interestingly enough, was the first computer I ever “owned” — my father let me have a cast off 400 because my brother claimed the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,7,13,27,26,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-computer-info-and-history","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","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=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}