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Merchandising, a trade magazine. You can partially make it out at the bottom.

Another early VCS newspaper ad, this one from PayLess Super Drug Stores appeared on Sept. 3, 1977. The VCS is offered for $169.88 (along with Super Pong C140 for $29.88). Once again, no mention of list/retail prices in this ad. 237782812.pdf

By January 1978 the VCS list price was reported to be $199.95. This may or may not have been the launch price for 1977.

1977-08-01.pdf 1977-09-11-1.pdf 1977-09-11-2.pdf

I think the sales data established that 5200 Gremlins came out in 1987.

Macy's ran a major spread in newspapers on Sept. 11, 1977 where they introduced the VCS for $180.00 (along with Video Pinball for $80.00). No mention of list prices. A much more obscure newspaper ad was run by Longs Drug Stores on August 1, 1977, listing the VCS for $169.88. "Longs Low Sale Price". No mention of list price there either. These are the earliest VCS newspaper ads I've found. Based on other ads including the Dec 77 one you found, it's my belief that $190 (or $189.95) was most likely the original list price.

I also guess PaperClip, because it seems to be the only Atari WP where the editor has a line of inverse video at both the top and bottom of the screen. I think the black part through the middle of the screen may be just an artifact of the photo of the TV. I just ran into this site for the first time: http://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Atari8bitFamily

http://www.digitpress.com/library/magazines/atari_age/atari_age_v2n1.pdf see page 9

I had just been trying to piece together what I could about the OS replacement chip products from Computer Support in the UK. I think I can characterize most of them to a basic extent, but I really can only guess about their "Super-Chip" or "Superchip" chips for the 400/800, 600XL/800XL, or 130XE. My best guess so far is that these might have been fast math offerings, but that's really only speculation. Anyone know what they really were? They were advertised for quite a while so I think they were probably real. These ads are all I have to go on. Computer Support Atari-User-Vol-1-No-12.pdf Computer Support Atari-User-Vol-2-No-04.pdf

8! http://atariage.com/forums/topic/223137-810-disk-drive-differences/?p=2947489 left pic

Atari-related section: 28:20 - 36:35

excerpt that looks like it's from an 822 FSM: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/127483-atari-os-and-hardware-manuals-get-them-here/?p=2672202

Mar Tesoro? (very obscure game that was one of the all-time favorites in our house)

Make that page 70, not page 17

March 2015 is up. There were no Jan 2015 or Feb 2015 issues. (or at least none so far).

I haven't been able to locate a newspaper ad for the second Pak here: free Home Run with purchase of Atari Golf and Atari Basketball. Given that the sticker is exactly the same design as the PRO-500 sticker, I think it's reasonable to conclude they are from about the same time period, around June 1981. It would be nice to confirm the PRO-xxx number for the Home Run / Golf / Basketball promotion. What I had been doing when I came across this thread was, I was trying to pin down when the PRO810, PRO811 and PRO812 Paks might have come out, going by when they appeared in newspaper ads. I think these probably came out about a year later, mid-1982.

And then when mid-1982 came around, they pushed back the anticipated release date one more time, to first quarter 1983..

According to this Atari ad, Atari was still trying to get PFMS out the door by "mid-1982". While according to ANALOG #9, PFMS was actually pulled from the market in mid-1982. Makes for a very brief window of time when it would have been available! QScan02012015_155706.pdf

I post 'em when I get 'em. So, there hasn't been one so far, but I think no reason to panic.

Here's a newspaper ad from June 18, 1981 that appears to answer this question: Atari Action Pak PRO-500 Includes Street Racer, Bowling, and Air-Sea Battle. 166660973.pdf

Regarding SIO pin 12... On page 8 of this document (page 12 of the PDF), it says SIO pin 12 is "300 mA regulated" while further down the same page it appears to say "Line 12 is regulated +12 V dc at 100 mA." On page 17 of this document http://www.atarimuseum.com/ahs_archives/archives/pdf/computers/8bits/1200XL/sweet-16_prodspecs.pdf it says "Pin 12 of the Atari 400/800 SIO connector is 12-volts, 300 ua of direct current." So I remain a bit unsure about the current available on pin 12 on the 400/800. Is the value 100 or 300, and are the units milliamps (mA) or microamps (uA)? I suppose someone with the proper tool and a 400/800 or two could easily measure and confirm what current is actually there?

I think I have a complete set, and I don't see a disk marked v3n2.

They look like the same early box, but I noticed that on the box in this thread, there's a thin little sticker on the far right that says it was sold by Atari Corp. I can't make out the year for sure, but 1986 would make sense and I think that's what it looks like. The box in the other thread doesn't have that sticker, so we can see c1984 Atari Inc. there.

On a completely unrelated project I first stumbled across this pic (probably eBay), then I stumbled across this thread, and realized the two need to be joined together!

Yes I'm sure that would be tedious, but there's no bulk download option at this time. I supposed we/I could start maintaining a big zip of them all. Then I'd have to periodically re-package that zip with the additional latest issues. Note that they're not all pdf files, many are html with external images.. Since I already have a fresh complete backup archive on my hd, let's make a complete .zip archive, just to see how big it is... Ok, comes to 164MB. Would a download like that be of interest?