Classic Commercials: Atari 400
Today, April 21, 2007, 12 hours ago TechEMaster
For our daily classic commercials post, we bring you this Atari 400 advert from 1978. Continue reading to watch.
The Atari 400, despite its membrane keyboard and single internal ROM cartridge slot, outsold the more feature rich Atari 800 by some margin. Due to the FCC restrictions, the 400/800 couldn’t allow slots like those found on the Apple II computers. Instead, they created a proprietary, expensive serial-based interface called SIO (Serial Input/Output), or “Daisy Chain”.
I still remember having a tape drive, 2 floppy drives, 2 printers all daisy chained. It looked like a wire factory exploded on my desk.
Can't you just feel the processing power!!!!
3 comments:
I love how they took the angle of 'teaching' you kid another language. We've got computers a thousand times better than the Atari, and I still only know one.
The language programs were like having a Spanish class taught by a Speak 'n' Spell.
My wife is using some mean software to learn Spanish via PC. I belive it's called Berlitz.
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