Atari 800 User Manual

30 User's Handbook to the Atari 400/ 800 Computers
known as the cursor will be displayed. The cursor indicates the
position where the next character typed in will appear on the
display.
Atari Keyboard
As mentioned in Chapter 1, the Atari 400 and 800 keyboards are
virtually identical, except that the Atari 800 keyboard contains a
typewriter style keyboard with raised keys while the Atari 400
keyboard is depicted on a flat panel. The keyboard layout of the
Atari keyboard is shown in Illustration 2-6.
The Atari keyboard contains many of the same keys arranged in
the same order as a regular typewriter keyboard. The Atari
keyboard
also contains several additional keys not found on a
typewriter keyboard. Two of these, ESC and CTRL, are
located on the left side of the keyboard. Three other keys,
BREAK,
CAPS / LOWR, and /rI.. , are located on the right side of the
keyboard. Also, to the far right of the keyboard are four yellow
special function keys. Finally, some of the standard typewriter
keys contain special words or special symbols.
Illustration 2-6. Atari Keyboard

Atari 800 Specifications

General

Processor	MOS Technology 6502
Processor Speed	1.79 MHz
ROM	10 KB
Graphics	ANTIC and GTIA chips
Release Year	1979
Display Resolution	up to 320 x 192
Colors	128 colors
Sound	4 channels
Storage	Cartridge, cassette, floppy disk
Ports	Cartridge, serial, monitor
Operating System	Atari OS