what atari system did i have?

Question

im trying to remember what atari computer i had, i cant remember much bout it, the base was a keyboard/box with a seperate tape reader thingy that used normal looking tapes!!! and a catridge slot on the back catridges simillar to n64's i think i had games like salmon run, space ranger and some 3d game which was meant to be a doom for the atari where the enemys where spiders it was proper retro even when i had it and this is about 10 years ago maybe even more? it had a basic operating system it looked a bit like windows because it had those window boxes and a trash can!!! any ideas?

Answer 1

You had an 8-bit Atari computer system. Since you had the tape drive, it's very likely you had one of the early models of Atari computers, as the tape drives weren't around all that long.

If it had a real keyboard, you had an Atari 800 computer. If it was a membrane keyboard (no actual keys), you had an Atari 400. The cassette drive was the model 410. The 400 originally was issued with 8k of RAM. Yes, that's 8K, not 8M of rem. The Atari 800 was originally issued with 32K of RAM.

My dad bought me an Atari 400 and cassette drive one Christmas. It got me hooked, and I ended up upgrading to an Atari 800 and the disk drive, which was a model 810 afterwards.

These 8-bit Ataris were outstanding game machines, able to duplicate perfectly the arcade games of the day. As a computer to use for other purposes, like anything for business, they weren't very practical.

Answer 2

I believe that it was the Atari 800 although the 400 was somewhat similar. The 400 came out in 1979 and the 800 came out in the mid 80s.

Answer 3

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