1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 Curt Vendel &amp;amp; Marty Goldberg, Atari Historians &amp;nbsp; Welcome to Antic, the Atari 8-bit podcast. &amp;nbsp;I&amp;rsquo;m Randy Kindig, one of the hosts of the podcast, and your host for this episode. &amp;nbsp;To give you a little background on this interview and where it came from, I also host another podcast on retrocomputing called Floppy Days, where I cover various vintage computers in the order that they were introduced. &amp;nbsp;I recently covered the Atari 400 &amp;amp; 800 computers and had asked Curt Vendel and Marty Goldberg, Atari historians, to help cover the history portion of the podcast. &amp;nbsp;I used excerpts from that interview on the podcast, but only used a small portion of the interview for that. &amp;nbsp;So, I thought I would air the entire interview, since it covers Atari computers, on Antic. &amp;nbsp; In this interview we discuss the history of the 400 &amp;amp; 800 in-depth, as well as discussing the passing of Steve Bristow, an Atari icon, the status of the Atari history books by Curt &amp;amp; Marty, and much more. &amp;nbsp; This interview was conducted February 25, 2015 via Skype. &amp;nbsp; Teaser Quotes: &amp;nbsp; &amp;ldquo;the whole idea was to make a more advanced Atari VCS, Atari 2600&amp;rdquo; &amp;nbsp; &amp;ldquo;when you bring a microprocessor in there, a 6507, and then you're trying to make them as intelligent a peripheral as possible, it can add to the expense&amp;rdquo; &amp;nbsp; &amp;ldquo;When Atari designed the 400/800, it really was designed as a consumer computer&amp;rdquo; &amp;nbsp; &amp;ldquo;there's an ad going around now, it's popular on Twitter, to make fun of how Atari says the computer will never become obsolete&amp;rdquo; &amp;nbsp; &amp;ldquo;they only viewed Atari as an entertainment asset&amp;rdquo; &amp;nbsp; Links: &amp;nbsp; Retro Gamer Magazine &amp;nbsp; RETRO Magazine &amp;nbsp; &amp;ldquo;Atari Inc: Business is Fun&quot; at Amazon &amp;nbsp; Atari Book site &amp;nbsp; Atari Museum &amp;nbsp; Steve Bristow ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast http://ataripodcast.libsyn.com <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/3578142/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/88AA3C/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/item/3578142