Inside the Atari 800

This is the computer that started it all. The original, the OG, the Atari 800. First released in 1979 (along with the Atari 400), the Atari 800 was a powerful personal computer with ground-breaking graphics capabilities. I recently picked up an Atari 800 on Facebook Marketplace, so let’s take a closer look at it.

The first thing to notice if you’ve never…