Talk:Atari Program Recorder

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 04:09, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

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Atari 410 Program Recorder

• ... that the Atari 410 Program Recorder (pictured) was used to store programs on the Atari 8-bit family, but was also used for computer aided instruction? Source: creative computing and yost

Created by Maury Markowitz (talk). Self-nominated at 15:03, 9 November 2021 (UTC).

Reviewed Epson ActionNote.

• Article is new and long enough. Correct person credited. Hook is included in article and exciting enough to use. There is no copyvio, and everything post-lede is cited, QPQ did not access hook, but was done. Picture is in article and looks good enough, and is free to use. The hook is in the article. And is under 200 characters. The link for yost goes to a Creative Computing issue and not Antic as the reference said. So perhaps something is wrong here. This link seems to be what you want from the "Atari Inc. Enters Personal-Home Computer Industry", but all that does is say the cassette exists. So @Maury Markowitz:, do you think you can correct the link for the Antic Yost article so that the info can be confirmed? Graeme Bartlett (talk) 04:25, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

@Graeme Bartlett: Cut and paste bug, fixed. Yost no longer part. Maury Markowitz (talk) 12:36, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

I see Yost reference now point to the correct page, but it says nothing about the 410. Is there another reference to support the use for CAI? Graeme Bartlett (talk) 21:35, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

Another bad URL for some reason, right month wrong year. Try again, specifically states CAI. Maury Markowitz (talk) 19:24, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

good to go now that hook is confirmed. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 08:20, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

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Disputed- Cassettes were *not* universal in Western Europe circa 1986

Article says

this led to the introduction of the XC11 in the UK around 1986 [..] Only small numbers seem to have been produced, as by this time floppy disks were now almost universal in the US and most of Europe.

The part in bold may have been true- from what I've heard- in the US, but it certainly wasn't even in Western Europe, or at least the UK.

The referenced article doesn't even seem to back this up either, can someone point me to the section that (supposedly) does?

Dixons in the UK sold bundles with the 800XL and 1010 disk drive at a very good price around this time (£120), so there may have been a higher proportion of UK Atari owners with disk drives than for other formats, but that certainly wasn't universal. They also sold cheaper bundles with the 800XL and a tape deck.

In addition, there was a significant amount of budget software (£1.99 and £2.99 price points) for the Atari on the UK market, and the vast majority were released on cassette only. This may have reflected the fact that the budget market (for *all* 8-bit formats) was geared around cassettes, but they certainly wouldn't have released cassettes on the Atari if no-one used them.

If the XC11 (which I never saw in the flesh) was short-lived, I suspect that has more to do with the fact that it was quickly replaced by the cheaper-looking XC12, which *was* relatively common.

Not saying that the above is citeable in itself, but the opposite isn't true and doesn't appear to be backed up either.

Ubcule (talk) 20:53, 23 March 2026 (UTC)

Ditto the claim that

The XC11 and XC12 of 1986 matched the XE series and were sold mostly in eastern Europe

Ubcule (talk) 11:37, 24 March 2026 (UTC)