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From: Tom_Klok@mindlink.bc.ca (Tom Klok)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: What is an Atari 400??
Message-ID: <5701@mindlink.bc.ca>
Date: 1 May 91 13:55:29 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> daveg@prowler.clearpoint.com writes:
> -=> On 1 May 91 16:28:53 GMT, achilles@unixland.uucp (David Holland) said:
> 
> [...]
> DH>   The Atari 400 has a big brother, the Atari 800.  This machine
> DH> has a full travel keyboard (in place of the 400's membrane type),
> DH> and came with 32KB memory as opposed to the 400's 16KB (someone
> DH> please correct me if I'm wrong).
> 
> You're wrong. :-)
> 
> Both the Atari 400 and the Atari 800 shipped with 16K of RAM.

In the beginning, both the 400 and 800 shipped with 8K of RAM.  Later on it was
16K, and a while after that the 800 could be had with 32K or 48K from the
factory.  For a time there were a lot of articles in the magazines on how to
hack an 8K RAM board into 16K by changing the RAM chips, a decoder and adding a
few jumpers.

Star Raiders runs in 8K of ROM and 8K of RAM.  Impressive, isn't it?

Tom
a344@mindlink.bc.ca