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.

In this shot, I've separated the power board (right) from the motherboard (left); the latter is still encased in its massive metal shielding. The engineer who designed the shielding cleverly cast it into a functional structural shape that defines the cartridge and the memory slots.

The power board receives power through the previously seen power-in jack. It then conditions, regulates, and adjusts the electricity to the voltages required for various parts of the system.

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