Hal Segal was founder and president of the Association of
Time-Sharing Users, and the Association of Small Computer Users,
and several other groups dedicated to early computer systems. The
Association of Time-Sharing Users was formed in 1974: it published
a newsletter,...
Steve Englehart worked in the Advanced Games Group of Atari,
where he developed ideas for new computer games. He was the
designer of E.T. Phone Home!, Final Legacy, and Garfield for the
Atari 8-bit machines, and worked on several unfinished games. He
wrote the manual for...
Jack Smyth, The Learning Company and Add-On
Software
Jack Smyth was the first CEO of The Learning Company, the
educational software publisher best known for Reader Rabbit and
Rocky's Boots. He was also involved with Add-On Software, a company
that sold CP/M software for several computer platforms, including
the Atari...
Bryan Talbot published one program for the Atari computer:
Cartoonist, which was published by Atari Program Exchange. It first
appeared in the fall 1983 APX catalog, where it was awarded first
prize in the systems/telecommunications category.