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Comment by MegaDeKay

17 hours ago

I'll see your Atari 800 and raise you my Atari 2600 with its whopping 128 bytes of RAM. Bytes with a B. I can kinda sorta call it a computer because you could buy a BASIC cartridge for it (I didn't and stand by that decision - it was pretty bad).

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acomjean  10 hours ago

I thought the timex Sinclair 1000 win 2 Kbytes of ram was bad.

The membrane keyboard wasn’t great (the lack of a space bar was a wierd choice) but it did work. We had programs on casette and did get the 16Kbyte memory expansion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Sinclair_1000

I didn’t realize the Atari 2600 had basic, always thought of it as a game console.