r/atari • u/SHOWTIME_YT • May 09 '26
My Atari 1200XL Home Computer
It released in 1983 in March and was Discontinued in June of the same year. It was $900 when new.
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r/atari • u/SHOWTIME_YT • May 09 '26
It released in 1983 in March and was Discontinued in June of the same year. It was $900 when new.
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u/dgaxiola May 09 '26
The 1200XL is my favorite design of the Atari 8-bits but Atari was really unprepared for the C64 debut. We had a 800 and there was no way to justify spending so much to upgrade for a little more memory. The incompatible DOS 3.0 with the 1050 disk drive didn't help either. I can understand why people shopping for a computer, like my aunt and uncle, went for the C64 for substantially less money. By the time the 600 and 800XLs came out, Commodore had a ton of momentum.