Atari 800XL (Computer Direct, 1985)

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      ·  7 years ago 

    Funny you mention them combining RAM size. Coleco did the same with the ADAM saying it had 80K, but I forget where the other 16K came from.

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        ·  7 years ago (edited)

      I suspect they extra 16K was ROM in the Coleco ADAM as well. Built-in BASIC and so forth...

      Reminds me a little of how Atari advertised the Jaguar as 64-bit. It had two 32-bit processors and that's how they came up with the number. To be fair though, the graphics processor was 64-bit...

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          ·  7 years ago 

        nice find

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