Performing a resto-mod on a beloved piece of childhood technology can be quite a ride. In [Bertrand]’s case, it was the keyboard to their Atari 130XE. Although it has those cool double-shot k… ...

Take this Atari 400 keyboard, for example. What kid wouldn't want a keyboard in orange, brown, and tan complete with oddly shaped chiclet keys and no concern for ergonomics.

The stripped down 400 was sold as a console, the Atari 5200. It was fairly successful. Might be Games Division were responsible for shipping it with the famously hand-crippling joysticks though.

– Uses original, new-old-stock Atari 800 keyboard. This is probably the best keyboard in the history of computing, so it was worth including, despite the complications (see story) ...

The Atari’s famously bad keyboard just barely counted as a physical one: In one of the cheesiest cost-cutting decisions ever made by a PC manufacturer, there were no individual keys. Instead, the ...

The Atari VCS is an ambitious new console that wears a number of hats. It has a library of classic arcade and Atari games, ... As mentioned already, you can also use mouse and keyboard on the VCS.

The Atari home video game system took the late1970s and early 1980s by storm, complete with faux wood paneling and a classic joystick with a big red button. Rival systems eventually surpassed the ...