About the cover

As with many families in the United States during the 1970s, my family’s first computer was the Atari Video Computer System (also known as the Atari VCS or, most commonly, the Atari 2600). My siblings and I spent many hours playing video games on that Atari 2600, usually connected to a black-and-white, nine-inch television in one of the bedrooms. Every once in a while, our parents would let us connect it to the large, color television in the living room.

The cover image is a photograph of a portion of the circuit board of the Atari 2600 that I currently own. In the photograph, you can see the MOS Technology 6507 CPU.