[game_preservation] Atari Inc. - Business Is Fun

[Benj Edwards]

Great news, Marty.  I can't wait to check it out.

Do you and Curt have any plans on exhibiting any of your sizable (if not 
legendary) Atari collections to the public at any point?

Benj

On 11/27/2012 8:47 PM, Martin Goldberg wrote:

> Just wanted to toot my horn and let everyone know that after years of

> research and the past year of intense writing, Atari Inc. - Business

> is Fun is finally finished!

>

> http://www.amazon.com/Atari-Inc-Mr-Curt-Vendel/dp/0985597402

>

> Covering the original Atari from it's days as Syzygy until it's fall

> in 1984, we had unprecedented access to materials and cooperation from

> ex-employees from all parts of the company (engineers, management,

> marketing, even down to maintenance and security people).

>

> As part of the process we also had large intake of materials donated

> that we'll be preserving (under Curt's Atari Museum and my E2M),

> besides the interviews we conducted.

>

> Also, over the Summer I had arranged for Atari co-founder Ted Dabney

> to come in to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA and do

> a video interview as part of their ongoing "Oral History" series. A

> chance for tech industry luminaries to be recorded in their own words

> and preserved for future generations. In this case on the early days

> of Syzygy/Atari to join the ones that Nolan and Al had already done

> for them. The transcription of that interview is now up.

>

> http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2012/10/102746459-05-01-acc.pdf

>


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