Inside the Atari 800

It's the 30th anniversary of this 8-bit PC classic. We celebrate the occasion as we always do, by tearing the product apart and showing you the pieces.

Internal expansion on the Atari 800 was limited to the four internal card slots shown above, positioned beneath a removable panel above the cartridge ports. Atari sold user-friendly "Memory Modules" (available in 8KB and 16KB sizes) that could be inserted and configured to a maximum RAM capacity of 48KB in three slots. The slot closest to the keyboard was always reserved for 10KB of ROM containing the simple but necessary Atari operating system.

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