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[Drygol] borrowed an intact Atari 800XL case from a friend, and used that to create a mold of the missing sections from his own case.

The 800XL hit the sweet spot of price and capabilities for many, and it became the best-selling model of the entire Atari 8-bit computer line. As a result, many fondly remember it to this day.

Somehow, I convinced my parents to get an Atari. The best one at the time was the 800XL. I also got a 5.25′ floppy, a letter quality daisy wheel printer and a 300 baud modem.

The Atari 600XL and 800XL systems, released in 1983, fixed some of the 1200XL’s problems. The 600XL (a replacement for the Atari 400) included 16KB RAM, and the 800XL had 64KB.

That’s more than enough horsepower to emulate 8-bit Atari computers and game systems, and THE400 can handle games designed for the Atari 400, Atari 800XL, and Atari 130XE home computers as well ...

I have fond memories of my Atari 800XL I got for Christmas around 1984(?). It was my first ever computer and I fell in love with them. I programmed my own games by middle school (thank you Dr. C ...

USgamer's Daily Classic for January 30, a look back at Utopia's Montezuma's Revenge, a 1984 platformer for Atari 800.

After the failure of the 1200XL, Atari went back to the drawing board and came up with the 600XL (with 16K of RAM) and 800XL (with 64K of RAM) computers, both of which sported similar industrial ...