Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal

Invented by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, BASIC was first successfully ...
PC World

Inside the Atari 800

Thirty years ago this fall, video game pioneer Atari released its first two entrants in the home-computer market: the Atari 800 and 400 computers. Originally retailing for $1000, the Atari 800 shipped ...
PC Magazine

BASIC Turns 50, and I Still Miss It

One of the most popular computer programming languages of all time is turning 50 on May 1, but just about no one uses it anymore. BASIC, short for Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, may ...
Hackaday

Access An 8-bit Atari Through Twitter

Building a retro computer, or even restoring one, is a great way to understand a lot of the fundamentals of computing. That can take a long time and a lot of energy, though. Luckily, there is a ...
Hackaday

atari 800

Building a retro computer, or even restoring one, is a great way to understand a lot of the fundamentals of computing. That can take a long time and a lot of energy, though. Luckily, there is a ...