My Atari 400

[cbmeeks]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cbmeeks/sets/72157608150850558/

 

More pictures coming soon.

 

Tomorrow, I plan on taking the complete unit outside in the natural light and get some better pics.

 

I also plan on uploading a few to Wikipedia.

 

Comments welcomed.

 

-cbmeeks

[littleman jack]

Nice pictures.

 

Yours was an early one, made in California. Mine must be later, made overseas. I noticed they both have a hole or chip out of the bottom of the keyboard. Do you know if that was intended to be there, or just broken off? I always figured it was broken off, but maybe not.

 

Are you going to post shots of it put back together as well?

 

Thanks for the pictures.

[cbmeeks]

Not quite sure about the hole. I have discovered that mine will not stay running for more than 10 minutes. It locks up. So I need to somehow fix that.

 

I have upload three more pics of it assembled but the lighting is bad. I am going to try and get some natural light this week so that the pics come out much better. I just was tied up the entire day with family chores.

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cbmeeks/29552...57608150850558/

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cbmeeks/sets/72157608150850558/

[cbmeeks]

More updates.

 

 

It's cleaned up quite nicely.

 

For all of my Atari 400 pics, go here: My Atari 400

 

Also, stay tuned...I have ANOTHER Atari 400 is looks really bad but plays nice. I'm going to restore it and post details. But first, I am going to paint and restore my Atari 520 STfm.

 

Comments welcomed!

[mimo]

Very nice, did you paint it, or did it just clean up that well?

 

Before you paint you ST, check out this info from the Amiga forums, I am in the process of restoring a 400 and an 800XL using this method, so far the XL looks to be getting a much better colour

 

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=37808

[cbmeeks]

No, just cleaned her up a lot. My other 400 is much worse....so it will be fun to see it take on a better condition.

 

Thanks for the link! I will check that out.

[OldSchoolRetroGamer]

Very nice! You know for all the crap I hear about that keyboard, there is just something cool about those versions of the 400, I think it is great that all the computer companies back then were not afraid to experiment!

[Christos]

Very nice! You know for all the crap I hear about that keyboard, there is just something cool about those versions of the 400, I think it is great that all the computer companies back then were not afraid to experiment!

 

I agree, it looks quite futuristic. Actually if they experimented with that case they could have made a really cool looking console.

[ApolloBoy]

So that's an original 1979 system? Nice, I've actually been thinking about getting a 400 for collecting purposes in addition to an 800.

[cbmeeks]

The Atari 400 is a very under-rated system. The keyboard really isn't that bad if you use it as a game machine (ie, pressing the occasional key for menus, typing your name in games, etc).

 

I love the look of it.

 

After I finish my ST restoration, I am going to start on my other 400. The one that actually works! lol

 

(the one pictured works for about 5 minutes then locks up).

 

Thanks!