Larry Breakwell, Toronto Atari Programmers
Society
Larry Breakwell was founder of the Toronto West Atari Computer
Support Group, then president of the Toronto Atari Programmers
Society, which was the largest Atari user group in Canada.
In the mid-1980s, Mike Sandau and his friend connected their
Atari 8-bit computers to their citizens band radios to create a
small radio-telephone computer network. Their "DIALOG" project
combined the radio hardware with custom software (first in Atari
BASIC, then later in Action!)...
Charlie Kulas published Musical Pilot, an educational game,
through Atari Program Exchange. Musical Pilot first appeared in the
fall 1983 APX catalog, where it was awarded third prize in the
Learning category. He later worked at McT (AKA Microcomputer
Technologies), a company...
This is the fifth in a series of episodes featuring interviews
with the kids of Atari's Youth Advisory Board. If you're just
joining us: In 1983, Atari formed a Youth Advisory Board, selecting
20 kids, aged 14 though 18, from around the U.S. to share their
opinions about computers,...