Apr 26, 2020
Atari Speed Reading: Karlyn Kamm and Brad
Oltrogge
The Atari Speed Reading software package was released by Atari in
1981. It was a self-paced program, for use with the Atari computer
and a cassette drive, that promised to teach you to increase
reading speed and comprehension with 30 days of practice. The
package contained a workbook and five cassette tapes.
This is an interview with two of the people who created the Atari
Speed Reading package. Karlyn Kamm created the speed reading
educational material at the University of Wisconsin with Dr. Wayne
Otto. In 1975, she and Dr. Otto published a book titled "Speedway,
the Action Way to Read." Dr. Otto died in 2017.
Brad Oltrogge is president of Learning Multi-Systems, the software
publisher that was contracted by Atari to turn Kamm and Otto's
speed reading material into a product for the Atari home
computer.
This interview took place on April 16, 2020.
Atari Speed Reading Workbook
Atari
Speed Reading at AtariWiki
Dr. Otto obituary
Speedway: The action way to speed
read
The Study
Skills Component of the Wisconsin Design
Learning
Multi-Systems