Dwight Johnson, Lake County Atari Computer
Enthusiasts
Dwight Johnson was founder of Lake County Atari Computer
Enthusiasts, a users group based in Waukegan, IL. He started the
group in April 1983. The group still exists today as a general PC
computer users group, and is now called Lake County Area...
Colin Hume worked at Thorn EMI for about a year, where he
programmed one game for the Atari 8-bit computers: Computer War.
Computer War was based on the 1983 movie War Games.
Thomas Cherryhomes joined us to ask Colin some questions of
his own.
Matthew McGinley was the creator and publisher of Elite
Personal Accountant, financial management software for the Atari
computer. He released it in mid-1985 after working on it for
several years.
The review of Elite Personal Accountant by Stephen Roquemore
in Antic...
Cynde Moya, Collections Manager at Living Computers:
Museum + Labs
Cynde Moya is Collections Manager at Living Computers: Museum
+ Labs. Located in Seattle, Washington, Living Computers is a
computer museum that provides hands-on experiences using computers
ranging from micros to mainframes. (Last time I was there,...
That voice you just heard in an Alien Group Voice Box II
connected to an Atari 800.
Voice Box was a external speech synthesizer box for the Atari
400 and 800. Voice Box, and its successor Voice Box II, was
marketed by "The Alien Group" starting in July 1982. The device
used the...