They’re not a 2600, but the Atari 400, 800 and 1200 are awesome computers in their own right. With only BASIC built in to the ROM, they’re not especially useful or fun, as [Jeroen] found out ...

Easy-to-use programming language that drove Apple, IBM, and Commodore PCs debuted in 1964. ... My first was Atari BASIC on an Atari 800XL.

The bot was built by [Kay Savetz] and accepts programs in five programming languages: Atari BASIC, Turbo-Basic XL, Atari Logo, Atari PILOT, and Atari Assembler/Editor, which was a low-level ...

Nowadays, "basic" has a very different and derogatory Urban Dictionary-style meaning. Fifty years ago on this very day, however, it was the name given to a new computer-programming language born ...

Easy-to-use programming language that drove Apple, IBM, and Commodore PCs debuted in 1964. ... I learned computer programming writing Basic on an Atari 400.