Sep 13, 2020
Kai and George Esbensen, Micro-Ed Software
I first heard about the Micro-Ed software company when a member of
the Atari community sent me a batch of educational cassette tapes
to digitize. The tapes had titles like Maps and Globes,
Punctuation, and Spelling Level E. Intriguingly, the tape labels
said "Micro-Ed,...
Sep 5, 2020
Myra Marshall, Computer Applications
Tomorrow
Myra Marshall, along with her husband-at-the-time Roger Marshall,
was co-founder of Computer Applications Tomorrow, a small software
company that specialized in educational software for
microcomputers. Most of the company's software was self-published
and sold in small...
Aug 29, 2020
Aug 16, 2020
Charles Marslett, MYDOS and FastChip
Charles Marslett wrote floppy disk and hard drive drivers for
Percom, and was the creator of MYDOS, a disk operating system for
the Atari 8-bit computers that offered support for double density
sectors, subdirectories, and hard drives. He also created FastChip,
a hardware add-on for...
Jun 29, 2020
Brad Stewart, Covox
Brad Stewart was the co-founder and chief designer of Covox, the
company that created Covox VoiceMaster. VoiceMaster was speech
digitizer and voice recognition hardware for the Commodore 64,
Atari 8-bit, and Apple II computers. Covox's own demonstration
audio tape describes it well, although the...