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    design carried over to the 600XL and 800XL released later the same year. After the company was sold and reestablished, Atari Corporation released the 65XE...
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    distributed as an 8 KB ROM cartridge for use with the 1979 Atari 400 and 800 computers. Starting with the 600XL and 800XL in 1983, BASIC is built into the system...
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    profitably at the rapidly falling market prices. Atari eventually introduced lower-cost models, the 600XL and 800XL, but these were repeatedly delayed and...
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    in Chicago and featured the introduction of the Coleco Adam and the Atari 600XL. The Amiga was first shown publicly at the 1984 Summer CES. In addition...
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  • designed to support concept programming XL models, of the Atari 8-bit computers (1200XL, 600XL, 800XL) Weather Star XL (also known as just XL), a computer...
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  • 1064 Memory Module - 64 KB memory expansion for 600XL CX75 Light Pen - a light pen. Bundled with the AtariGraphics drawing program on cartridge. CX77 Touch...
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    The Atari Program Recorder is Atari's dedicated magnetic-tape data storage device for the Atari 8-bit computers. The original 410 was launched along with...
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  • Atari releases the poorly received 1200XL computer. Late in the year it and the rest of the Atari 8-bit computer series are replaced by the 600XL and...
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  • combined. Prices for the VIC-20 and C64 were $50 lower than Atari's prices for the 600XL and 800XL. Commodore's strategy was to, according to a spokesman...
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    ATASCII (category Atari 8-bit computers)
    was replaced by the standard ATASCII encoding. Hebrew versions of the Atari 600XL and 800XL were distributed in Israel, which had a Hebrew character set...
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