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GA Review

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Reviewer: Ritchie333 (talk · contribs) 13:06, 18 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]


I'll give this a go. Hey, it's been several decades since I've seen one of these. I've had a spin through the article and I can't see any obvious reason to quickfail it, so I'll give it the full review. My initial concern is that at 55K of prose, the article might be a bit long compared to contemporary computers such as the Apple II and the Commodore 64, although neither of those have been improved to GA. I see quite a bit of unsourced technical information; that'll need sorting out too.

I tend to copyedit as I go and raise issues as and when I find them. Specific comments will follow. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 13:06, 18 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

General

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  • I'm concerned there isn't enough distinctive information to spin this article out of its parent, Atari 8-bit family.

Lead

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  • Why is the article not called Atari 800? There's no need to disambiguate.
  • I think the opening sentence needs to be fleshed out a bit. Compare with the GA ZX81, which mentions the manufacturing dates, sales figures, overall response, and clones.
  • "The Atari 800 was initially only offered in the US mail order business from the end of 1979" - does this mean the computer was first available only in the US, and only via mail order?
  • "it was possible to continuously increase awareness - I don't understand what this means

History

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  • "The engineers' efforts were mainly focused on expanding the graphics capabilities of the highly integrated special circuit Television Interface Adapter (TIA) built into the Atari 2600." - what does "highly integrated" mean here?
  • "still from the high acquisition costs." - what does this mean?
  • "cost a total of more than ten million US dollars" - can we get a conversion to adjust for inflation using Template:Conversion?
  • The 6 December 1978 launch date and press release in the New York Times isn't cited, I've added a tag
  • The "Marketing" subsection is quite small - it could do with being merged elsewhere
  • The "Tapping into the education sector" subsection could be trimmed down to something like "Education"

Summary

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