History of video games/Platforms/Atari 8 bit family

History
The Atari 800 and 400 were released in 1979 with the 400 costing $550 and the 800 costing $1000.

Compute
The Atari 400 and the Atari 800 are powered by an 8-bit 6502 processor clocked at 1.79 megahertz.

The Atari 400 has eight kilobytes of RAM in early models and 16 kilobytes of RAM in later models. The Atari 800 has 16 kilobytes of RAM in early models and 48 kilobytes of RAM in later models.