Oh boy, just looking at the picture above gives me goose bumps! This is the system that started it all. The Atari 400 home computer system.  It had 4 controller slots, a cartridge slot and a membrane keyboard.   Playing Pacman, Donkey Kong and Q-bert on this unit felt like playing it in the arcade.  Most importantly, it was my first exposure to programming via the BASIC language. We would get manuals and write up test programs. Great learning experience for us in our youth.

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