{"id":70,"date":"2023-12-28T06:11:24","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T06:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theolamb.sites.sch.gr\/?p=70"},"modified":"2023-12-29T09:23:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T09:23:05","slug":"atari-8-bit-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tech-museum-3o-gym-alimou.mysch.gr\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"Atari 8-bit family"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Atari 8-bit family is a series of 8-bit home computers introduced by Atari, Inc. in 1979 with the Atari 400 and Atari 800.[2] As the first home computer architecture with coprocessors, it has graphics and sound more advanced than most of its contemporaries. Video games were a major appeal, and first-person space combat simulator Star Raiders is considered the platform’s killer app. The “Atari 8-bit family” label was not contemporaneous. Atari, Inc., used the term “Atari 800 [or 400] home computer system”, often combining the model names into “Atari 400\/800” or “Atari home computers”.[3][4]<\/p>\n

The Atari 800 was packaged as a high-end \"undefined\"model, and the 400 was more affordable. The 400 has a pressure-sensitive, spillproof membrane keyboard and initially shipped with 8 KB of RAM. The 800 has a conventional keyboard, a second (rarely used) cartridge slot, and allows easy RAM upgrades to 48K. Both use identical technology: the MOS Technology 6502 CPU at 1.79 MHz (1.77 MHz for PAL versions) and the same custom coprocessor chips. The plug-and-play peripherals use the Atari SIO serial bus, and one of the SIO developers eventually went on to co-patent USB (Universal Serial Bus).[5] The core architecture of the Atari 8-bit family was reused in the 1982 Atari 5200 game console, but games for the two systems are incompatible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Atari 8-bit family is a series of 8-bit home computers introduced by Atari, Inc. in 1979 with the Atari 400 and Atari 800.[2] As […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech-museum-3o-gym-alimou.mysch.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech-museum-3o-gym-alimou.mysch.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech-museum-3o-gym-alimou.mysch.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech-museum-3o-gym-alimou.mysch.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech-museum-3o-gym-alimou.mysch.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tech-museum-3o-gym-alimou.mysch.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/tech-museum-3o-gym-alimou.mysch.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech-museum-3o-gym-alimou.mysch.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech-museum-3o-gym-alimou.mysch.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech-museum-3o-gym-alimou.mysch.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech-museum-3o-gym-alimou.mysch.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech-museum-3o-gym-alimou.mysch.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftable_tags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}