What “vaporware” computers/peripherals were never released?
Atari was a HUGE company, dominating Silicon Valley, and included a massive research and development department which famously designed many, many products that never saw the light of day. Here is a brief listing of many Atari hardware model designations known to have existed internally to the company, but which were never sold and are extremely rare (if they ever existed at all). For definitive information on unreleased Atari products, see: Atari Historical Society, http://www.atari-history.com/ (Curt Vendel) Atari 8-bit vaporware computers: (note some are more vaporous than others) 800D (Developers Bus System) 1000 Sweet 16 Project, lower end model. Became the 1200XL 1000-X Sweet 16 Project, higher end model. Became the 1200XL 1200 1200XL internally, many slight cosmetic differences 1200XLS 1200XL Show prototype, top-mounted cartridge slot 600 early 600XL, all black case, joyports on the left, missing PBI 800XL brown prototype 800XLD low-cost 1450XLD,no modem&speech,incl disk drive c
