mikesk8 Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Hi All:-) I have recently seen two UK Atari 800 computers without “Atari 800 U” on the serial label on the back. I thought all UK PAL versions were labeled as 800 U? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Not sure it was done or if someone converted NTSC units to PAL units... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikesk8 Posted July 15, 2020 Author Share Posted July 15, 2020 Interesting as it had UK modulator on the power supply motherboard and UK sticker on the cartridge slot maybe other forum members have seen it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 (edited) sorry thought you said there where no UK marks, the power supply would have to be a UK supply, US supply is half that of UK and wouldn't plug up... if you managed to get it to plug up using simple prong adapter all the smoke would escape and nothing would work... Edited July 15, 2020 by _The Doctor__ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikesk8 Posted July 15, 2020 Author Share Posted July 15, 2020 33 minutes ago, _The Doctor__ said: sorry thought you said there where no UK marks, the power supply would have to be a UK supply, US supply is half that of UK and wouldn't plug up... if you managed to get it to plug up using simple prong adapter all the smoke would escape and nothing would work... Inside it looks UK but outside on the label there is no 800U just 800. That’s why I was wondering why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillC Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 58 minutes ago, mikesk8 said: Inside it looks UK but outside on the label there is no 800U just 800. That’s why I was wondering why? Perhaps when Atari first started building the UK PAL 800 they didn't have the updated serial number labels, so shipped the early ones with the NTSC label. Do you know the serial numbers of these units(I have noticed that the UK PAL 800 serial numbers usually start with BK, while the P(non-UK PAL) version started with 052)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikesk8 Posted July 15, 2020 Author Share Posted July 15, 2020 There were no letters; just serial number around 450000 and date 1983 week 10 or close. Don’t recall the exact numbers. It seems rather late 800. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikesk8 Posted July 15, 2020 Author Share Posted July 15, 2020 Maybe just the bottom was cracked and got replaced Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikesk8 Posted July 15, 2020 Author Share Posted July 15, 2020 To close this case is there any way of identifying the serial from inside? ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimo Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 10 hours ago, mikesk8 said: To close this case is there any way of identifying the serial from inside? ? sometimes there is a sticker on the aluminium case 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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