{"id":25046,"date":"2020-05-26T14:16:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T18:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=25046"},"modified":"2020-05-26T14:20:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T18:20:09","slug":"the-atari-800","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/05\/26\/the-atari-800\/","title":{"rendered":"The Atari 800"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=25047\" class=\"attachment wp-att-25047\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/atari800-730x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25047\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/189912936068\/retrocgads-usa-1981\">https:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/189912936068\/retrocgads-usa-1981<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/ebay\/Atari48.html\" width=\"320\" height=\"270\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>As far as I am concerned, the Atari 800 was THE computer to have. At least until the Commodore 64 came along but that would be several years later. The Atari 800 was more expandable than the Atari 400 but more importantly, it had a usable keyboard. I wouldn&#8217;t call the membrane keyboard of the Atari 400 &#8220;usable&#8221; anyway.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/05\/16\/atari-800-2\/\">https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/05\/16\/atari-800-2\/<\/a> for more information on the Atari 400 and Atari 800.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/189912936068\/retrocgads-usa-1981 As far as I am concerned, the Atari 800 was THE computer to have. At least until the Commodore 64 came along but that would be several years later. The Atari 800 was more expandable than the Atari 400 but more importantly, it had a usable keyboard. I wouldn&#8217;t call the membrane keyboard of the Atari 400 &#8220;usable&#8221; anyway. See https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/05\/16\/atari-800-2\/ for more information on the Atari 400 and Atari 800.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,4],"tags":[225,236,237,2362],"class_list":["post-25046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atari-8-bit","category-computer-arcana","tag-atari","tag-atari-8-bit","tag-atari-800","tag-retrocomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}