1983 Atari commercial Alan Alda for AtariWriter

This advertisement was recorded during an airing in November 1983. Alan Alda tells the world of the wonders of word processing - you can even move groups of words around! Atari single-handedly conquered the typewriter!

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Science & Technology

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• Atari
• AtariWriter
• Alda
• 1983
• commercial
• advertisement
• word
• processor
• personal
• computer

[VakoGames]

But will it run Crysis?

[MacJoseph]

what is type reader??

[coolpants96]

@catothewiser Haha ikr, that's why I youtubed this, to see if it was real

[catothewiser]

LOL!  outofdate.ytmnd.com

[thebigconsultant]

Coolness!

[blakegriplingph]

Yeah, but can that Atari run GTA IV?

[doubleot]

is that Stacy from the first commercial?

[fjccommish]

@mccarrpo I don't think so. 256 colors is way too many from which to choose. AtariWriter is far too advanced for the average person.

[fjccommish]

Can anyone name the changes Atari Writer made?

[MIKESOWELL]

@GroverKent He had been going gray for a while. I found out that for the last few years of the show, he was actually putting black shoe polish in his hair so that his character didn't look like he was aging too fast for a show whose war only lasted 3 and a half years.