Atari Video Music

[kb0nes]

This video just popped up on a YouTube feed I follow and it gave me a little flashback. Wondering how many others here had or simply remember these devices from the 70's?



I still have one I got second hand in the mid-80's. I'll bet my brother Jeff still has one too. Apparently there is a modding community that is messing about with these things. Of course in today's computer age working with an old largely analog, discrete device like this is somewhat silly.

Here is a PC World revisit on the device also:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3026...py-psychedelic-rarity-from-the-mid-1970s.html

The Techmoan channel on YouTube is a worthy follow if you like retro-HiFi with a little British cheekiness thrown in for good measure. I get a kick out of his Muppet like puppet skits at the very end of his videos too.

 

[kd12]

Wow. This is pretty cool. I had no idea Atari made this. Will have to go back and look thru old Sears catalogs online for this now.

 

[neptunebob]

To be truthful...

I always thought Intellivision had more music and was more entertaining.

 

[kb0nes]

Bob, this isn't a video game, this is an adapter that visualizes music from a stereo source on a television.

I can't comment on any of the early game systems, my first video game console was an Nintendo 8-bit

 

[fridgenut]

I love Techmoan!

His videos are great. He has taught me so much about dead formats and formats that never really took off. I just watched this video and I have to say that I like this odd device.

 

[DADoES]

 
My first computer was an Atari 800, with whopping 48K of RAM (they had recently upgraded to that as standard from 16K).  My understanding is Atari computers had specialized/dedicated chips to handle sound & graphics which placed them several steps ahead of other comparable consumer offerings at the time.