Atari's Home Computers Turn 40 — How Atari took on Apple in the 1980s home PC wars

guest · Dec 22, 2019

How Atari took on Apple in the 1980s home PC wars
Atari’s 400 and 800 packed some of the most advanced tech of their era and ran the best games. Forty years after their debut, they’re worth cherishing
December 21, 2019
https://www.fastcompany.com/90432140/how-atari-took-on-apple-in-the-1980s-home-pc-wars

Forty years ago, Atari released its first personal computers: the Atari 400 and 800. They arrived in the fall of 1979 after a prerelease marketing campaign that had begun the previous January when the company unveiled the machines at what was then called the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Then as now, “Atari” was synonymous with “video game,” and the new machines packed more technological potential than any game console at the time [...]

Some successes are bigger than business. The Atari home computers were a cultural phenomenon that brought joy to a generation.
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