Atari's 800XL returns with a keyboard, cartridges and BASIC
Atari's 1983 home computer is coming back with modern connections, 25 classic games and a working cartridge slot. But the most interesting feature might be the opportunity to write your own software again.
I remember coming home from school in the 80s, sitting in front of my little cream-colored black & white TV set with its rotary tuning dial and metal coat-hanger aerial, and painstakingly typing BASIC programs into my Sinclair ZX81. I wasn't yet ten years old, and I didn't really understand what I was doing, I just wanted to play the games. There was nobody to ask when things went wrong, either, which they inevitably did.
For all the talk about those early home computers teaching a generation to program, my experience was rather different. I never became a programmer. But they did introduce me to the idea that a computer could do something I'd helped create, even...
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