Looking at the Atari 400 Part 1

My first computer

I consider the Atari 400 my first computer. My Atari journey started with the Atari 2600, which pretty much everyone had at the time, but I quickly found myself getting bored with the games.

But I also knew nothing of computers at that time. I believe it was in 1982 when my Dad had a friend come over with his Atari 800 to demonstrate it. He fired up BASI…