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Re: ATARI is 40 years

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I bet playing Space War on the university campus was just mind blowing. 
  :)   Anyway the birthday of Atari was featured in the Stars and 
Stripes newspaper here in the U.S. Armed Forces.  Was really cool seeing 
that mentioned.

Doc Clu


On 6/27/12 9:22 PM, Francois LE COAT wrote:
> Hi,
>
> ATARI is 40 today, 2012 june, 27 !
> "
> In 1971, Bushnell and partner Ted Dabney managed to turn Spacewar! into
> the first mass-produced video arcade game, Computer Space. It wasn’t
> particularly successful. Undeterred, they continued their partnership,
> Syzygy, by founding Atari, Inc.. (Another company, it turned out, had
> first dibs on “Syzygy.”) They filed the incorporation papers on June
> 27, 1972, occupied 1,700 square feet of office space in Santa Clara,
> California, in the heart of Silicon Valley, and got ready to release a
> game they called Pong. The rest is videogame history.
> "
> Source :
> <http://techland.time.com/2012/06/27/atari-at-40-catching-up-with-founder-nolan-bushnell/>
>
>

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ATARI is 40 years Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> - 2012-06-27 19:22 +0200
  Re: ATARI is 40 years Clu <drclu@swbell.net> - 2012-07-07 02:02 +0400
    Re: ATARI is 40 years Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> - 2012-07-07 17:35 +0200

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