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I had an Atari 800 in the early 1980s. The games were close to the arcade version and with the BASIC cartridge we could write programs and save them to a cassette tape drive or floppy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_8-bit_family

Jay Miner was one of the main developers who later went on to be the "father of the Amiga"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Miner




Was so jealous of my friends that had an Atari 400 even, the 800 was legendary.




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