I found at an antique store an Atari 400 with cassette deck and manual for $35. I've done some research and have found that you can't run Basic from a tape deck, so I'd need the cartridge...

My question to you guys is...

...Is it worth it? I think it would be a cool RetroChallenge project, but I don't know what I can run with only a tape deck. I know if I can find dumps I can just play it on my iPod and output that to the Atari, but I would really like to try and code my own things, which I can't seem to do with only cassette tapes.

Thanks,

agg23