Atari Home Computers - Kiosk Presentation (Part 1, 1982)

[ii2Proii]

My tiNSPIRE calculator is 4000x better than this lmao

[Core2duoMac]

@NiTRoGLLYCERiN  of course Dr. Cooper but I'm sure you know the reference I was making :)

[mixarrpg]

1:21 very impresed, isnt?

[mspeter97]

where's part 2?

[chucknorrisgawd]

I wish I had an atari home computer, then I could finally watch porn...

[xaviorbat]

is it just me, or does the kid in red look evil?...like Chucky the evil doll type evil

[TeamRocketReviews]

I love the Atari 8-bit series. They're almost as powerful as the Commodore 64, and more reliable.

[paularu542]

I WANT IT :D

[burr1aj]

Ernie Hudson!



[ms3bani]

where's part 2??

[jugglingembalmer]

Would it have really amped up the cost to put a keyboard on the 400. I was in middle school school at the time and Atari and maybe the Timex Sinclair were the only personal computer with plastic press buttons. It seems like the 400 was just a game machine.

[artieroo]

Dude, ALL computers from the early 80s would insist in the bookkeeping once and again and again and...

Truth is, when I got my Atari 800XL, I opened ONCE Syncalc and wondered what was that thing for. I guess most Atari computers sold to normal people (and kids) were gaming machines almost exclusively.

[thetickleninjas]

i wouldve pressed the start key, if i had one. for windows xp users, just press the start button on your taskbar.

[ssssroryssss2]

Press "P" for instant porn!

[jbyrd0861]

ernie hudson?

[DrivingonSepulveda]

The granny gamer is a real beast.

[ionmyke]

Whats up with part 2?

[jvolstad]

Where is that "any" key?

[omgodzilla10]

For a sec I thought the monitor was a microwave.

[TeamRocketReviews]

@omgodzilla10 It's a TV. Atari never made a monitor for these machines. There were plenty of 3rd party monitors from companies like Amdek, who made the excellent Color-1 monitor, and you could even use Commodore monitors fine. Thats what most of my AtariAge friends do these days.

[omgodzilla10]

@TeamRocketReviews 1 year ago, seriously?

[TeamRocketReviews]

@omgodzilla10 I'm just saying.

[jackhole1990]

"Look! Someone else want's a look." [switches it off] "NO!"

[callkaro911]

1:19

VALVe!!!!

[nighthawk5556]

You could connect it to computers all over the world!!!! . . . um . . . by cranking your telegraph handset for 8 hours and staying off the phone all day. OR you could use the 'computed smoke signal communication port/igniter' LMAO

[Skibble5150]

Sent my first e-mail on one of these Atari 400's back in 1980...at 110 bps!

A plug-in cartridge pocket modem.

It was quite amazing at the time.

[SmokePropaganda]

still an amazing machine. my very first PC was a 400

the modem was indeed amazing back then.

I had no idea what this would eventually mutate into... The Internet.

400 games are some of the most arcade true ports brought home.

[SmokePropaganda]

i guess the guys who made this video didnt think id upgrade my 400 with an Atari 800 keyboard, and use 48k of ram in it either lol. The original 400 keypad sucked so i replaced it with a real keyboard.

my 400 was powerful enough to even run Atari XE games, though the lightgun games didnt work.

[Ogma01]

I grew up with Atari computers in the house starting around 1979 or 1980 with the Atari 800. We then "graduated" up to the 800XL, then 130XE and eventually the 16-bit ST/TT line. Loved 'em and still love 'em! Impressive machines!

[TeamRocketReviews]

@Ogma01 Yeah! The Atari 8-bit series is classic. I'm looking to buy an Atari 800XL. I've been having chip problems with my Commodore 64 these days, and it looks like the Atari 800XL has similar capabilities.

[mexamexo8]

oops you press the wrong key, try again.

fuck you

[Craptron2000]

There would have been a lot of people pressing random keys and wondering why things weren't happening after watching this.

[xXxBlueEyedAngelxXx]

1:40 -1:53 AWESOME

[Core2duoMac]

i bet this thing can run vista better than my pc

[zeonblue]

LMAO

[atari1128]

@Core2duoMac so true

[44971719785648751978]

@Core2duoMac well to do that would mean a massive over hall to it you whould have to gut it the put a new mother bored in it a few new holes and a video card with the Video and left, right ports so it will work with the tv and you mine have to redo the keyboard and have laptop hard drive and usb ports. And there you go a vista/or win7 Atari Home pc! XD Ps. it is not impossible.

[NiTRoGLLYCERiN]

@Core2duoMac well you didnt have to worry about spyware. The term program was the perfect antidote.

[NiTRoGLLYCERiN]

@Core2duoMac Well then again thats ridiculous. You would wait a million years for an atari running a PC emulator running vista to even boot up.

[freddydaddy69]

i had all of this crap when i was 5 years old. i was born rich and my family lost everything when i was a teenager. i still used the word processor on the atari 800 in college circa 1995. i remember trying to print off a paper for class using the printer in this video but it went totally fubar.

jebus, it was almost 20 years old then...

[NewChannels]

Very funny. Atari was the best.

[BFCboi]

Excellent video post. Love nostalgic Atari stuff!