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Who invented Atari Computers?

•  Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney started Atari Computers in 1972.

When was the Atari Computers invented?

•  1972.

When was the patent granted on the Atari Computers?

•  The USPTO granted patent to Atari on February 2, 1982 for Steven T. Mayer and Ronald E. Milner.

Who was the patent granted to on the Atari Computers?

•  Steven T. Mayer and Ronald E. Milner.

What are Atari Computers?

• Atari is a corporate brand name and is owned by the subsidiary of the French publisher Atari.
• Atari Inc. was established in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. The corporation makes arcade games, video game consoles and computers.
• The Atari 400 and 800 were the company's first personal computers developed in 1978 which is included with a high-end chipset that had originally been planned for use in Atari's video game consoles.
• The  1200XL introduced in 1982 and contained an entirely different mismatched platform from its 400/800 predecessors.
• Atari quickly swapped the 1200XL with the 600/800XL models, which were more compatible than 1200XL and additionally they are included with a new parallel bus interface for peripherals.
• The 1600XL model had a dual processor system that made it compatible with IBM computers.
• The XL computers were exchanged in 1985 with the XE line--the 65XE and 130XE computers with color monitors, 3.5 inch floppy disks and 512K bytes of memory to help make them competitive with other systems.
• In 1987 Atari industrialized more computers that are compatible with IBM's systems. The Atari PC-1 system had a integrated disk drive and ports to be compatible with the IBM XT computer.
• In 1996, the new Atari Interactive division failed to improve the company and was taken over by JTS, a maker of computer disk drives. Two years later in 1998, JTS sold Atari properties to Hasbro Interactive for $5 million.