Atari 800XL

Of course, obviously, they wanted an entry-level system, right? And memory was expensive.

So this little thing, 16K, that's all it had in it, right? Its counterpart, the 800XL, 64K, right? So...

The gimmick that Atari tried to push was buy the 600XL right now, right? Put it in your home, learn it, love it.

Here's a memory pack.

Yeah.

In fact, there's a couple problems.

Problem number one, the memory pack to expand it up to be the equivalent of the 800XL, more expensive than if you would have just went and bought the XL.

No, no, not just the memory.

It hurts more.

Like, probably the same percentage of piracy across all the computers, but, you know, when the Commodore 64 sells 2 million units in 1984, and the Atari 800XL sold a very respectable 600,000 or 700,000, but against 2 million, and then when you basically... basically gave Commodore 64 Christmas 1983 by using Alan Alda to sell Atari 8-bit computers with none in the stores.

And then someone going into a store just gets the Commodore 64.

Like, why not? And so they basically, Atari management at the time, killed their Atari computers that Christmas.

Mm.

Uh, you know, Atari 800XL, C64, ZX Spectrum from the UK.

Yeah.

Commodore.

All of his stuff you don't want to miss.

He's got one on a messy Atari 800XL that came in for a refit.

that he cleans up and fixes the Sophia DVI output.

There's also a level demo by Agenda.