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Atari 800
The Atari 800 was launched by Atari at the end of the 70's as a business computer (opposite to the Atari 400 which was marketed as a Gaming Device. While the computer still featured a cartridge slot for games it also had an attached keyboard, cassette, floppy, and printer interface. It sold for 999.95 dollars (Lendino, 2023). -
Atari 400
The Atari 400 did not have all the bells and whistles of the Atari 800 as it only had a cassette interface and Keyboard. As such the Atari 400 was marketed as a home computer to be used for education and entertainment purposes. The Atari 400 was also much cheaper than the 800 costing only $549.50 (Lendino, 2023). -
IBM Personal Computer 5150
The IBM Personal Computer 5150 was the first business computer one could buy from a relator. set up at home, and get started almost immediately. The computer also had the most RAM out of other models of its time, starting at 16KB which could be expanded to 256 KB. The computer was created by the International Business Machines Company in a collaboration with Designer Don Estridge and Bill Lowe head of IBM's Boca Raton Labs (Lendino, 2022). -
Commadore 64
The Commodore was marketed as more of a creative tool than a gaming device. The company Commodore debuted the musical capabilities of the device at the January, Las Vegas, Computer Electronics show. The computer was able to play songs from jingle bells to Bach's Inventor using the complex sound interface device located in the machine (Hepworth-Sawyer, R., Et al, 2019). -
IBM Personal Computer 5153 Model 1
Unlike the earlier model that IBM produced the IBM Personal Computer 5153 Model 1 had a couple of special touches which lent it more to gaming. The computer could connect to a TV with a composite output. This enabled programmers to have a wider color palette and more sound options. This resulted in the creation of games such as Donkey Kong, which was sold with every IBM computer of this model at the time (Lendino, 2022).