Hasta La Ideas

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pThose of you that know me even casually know I savor a fine set of vintage concept sketches the way a sommelier might a rare bottle of Chateau Lafitte. So you can imagine my excitement when a co-worker at frog sent me this set of concept sketches from Atari, 1981 vintage. /p

pem” By 1981 Atari’s home computer division began looking into replacements for the aging 400/800 line of computers. Several types of systems were conceptualized and in the end it came down to two routes. One was called the A-300 project which involved a new series of Atari computers which would work as modules and plug together to form a complete computer system. The second was an evolution of the A-300 project that shed all of the expansion and modular design for a low profile, high tech computer system which became the Atari 1200XL Computer System.”/em/p

pSee the entire set of 18 images at the online Atari Museum a href=”http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/CONCEPTS/1200/concepts.html”here./a/p

pIf you are like me, and you can’t get enough of this stuff, be sure to check out the Vintage Concept Sketches discussion in the forum a href=”http://boards.core77.com/viewtopic.php?f=27t=3520″here./a/p

pThanks to Amina Horozic for the tip/pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/featured_items/atari_1200_a300_vintage_concept_sketches_17490.asp”(more…)/a
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