Histoire avec Nolan Bushnell

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Sujet : Histoire avec Nolan Bushnell
De : lecoat (at) *nospam* atari.org (Francois LE COAT)
Groupes : fr.comp.sys.atari
Date : 26. Nov 2024, 21:30:16
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Bonjour,
Nolan Bushnell vient d'être interviewé par le Computer History Museum :
*Oral History of Nolan Bushnell*
Sur la chaîne Computer History Museum le 23/11/2024
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izYWqhUGBGA>
Interviewed by Hansen Hsu on 2024-07-10 in Los Angeles, CA
© Computer History Museum
Nolan Bushnell was born February 5th, 1943, in Ogden, Utah. As a child,
Bushnell was already interested in electronics, becoming a ham radio
operator at age 10, and was also a burgeoning entrepreneur, selling
strawberries and then starting a TV repair business. He attended Utah
State for two years before transferring to the University of Utah to
study engineering, where he worked with Dr. Dave Evans and met many
of the pioneers of computer graphics, and was first introduced to the
computer game, Spacewar!. Bushnell also worked at an amusement park
during the summer, eventually becoming the manager of the midway and
learning the economics of coin-operated games. After graduation,
Bushnell worked at the Ampex, where he would meet Ted Dabney, Al Alcorn,
Steve Mayer, Larry Emmons, and many others who would join him at Atari.
After spending more time playing SpaceWar! at the Stanford AI
Laboratory, Bushnell decided to make a commercial coin-operated version
of it, Computer Space, in partnership with Nutting and Associates, and
started his company, Syzygy, with Dabney to produce it, in 1970. Syzygy
became Atari in 1972, after obtaining contracts to produce more games
from Nutting and from Bally Midway. Bushnell hired Al Alcorn, and
assigned him the task of producing a tennis game similar to one he
had seen on the Magnavox Odyssey, purely as an exercise, but Alcorn’s
improvements to the game made it so fun that Ted Dabney installed the
first Pong machine in Andy Capp’s Tavern in Sunnyvale. This prototype
was a wild success, launching Atari’s business. Atari would go on to
produce many more coin-operated arcade games, but also expanded into
the home with consumer Pong, with the entire game implemented on a
single chip.
After producing a number of games with custom chips, Alcorn, Steve
Mayer, and others realized it would be better to create a
microprocessor-based console with games implemented in software on ROM
cartridges. This led to the creation of the wildly successful Atari VCS,
or Atari 2600. The VCS was designed by Mayer and others of Cyan
Engineering, which had merged with Atari to become its Grass Valley R&D
center. The capital needed to mass produce the VCS led to Atari’s sale
to Warner Communications in 1976, after which Bushnell stepped away
from managing the company.
Bushnell shifted his focus to running Chuck E. Cheese’s Pizza Time
Theater, which he had started under Atari, but bought back from Warner.
Bushnell formally resigned from Atari in 1979, and started a technology
incubator, Catalyst Technologies, which invested in companies involved
in automobile navigation, home robots, and computer animation. In recent
years, Bushnell has been involved in companies that bring together
gaming and education.
Il est malheureusement peu question de l'ordinateur ludique par ATARI.
C'est dommage parce que l'on en célèbre les 40 ans en janvier 2025 =)
L'ordinateur ATARI tient beaucoup du Mac et un peu du PC, en moins cher.
Il a été plébiscité en Europe par de nombreux informaticiens débutants !
--
François LE COAT
Auteur de Eurêka 2.12 (Grapheur 2D, Modeleur 3D)
https://eureka.atari.org/

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