[game_preservation] 1974 Atari memo by Jobs

[Martin Goldberg]

What design abilities? He wasn't an engineer, his job at Atari was simply
to work as a support tech to the regular engineers (think of a gofer on a
movie set - "go solder this" or "go implement this change"). Or did you
mean his later penchant for industrial design?

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Devin Monnens <dmonnens at gmail.com> wrote:


> Thanks for the info, guys! Will have to check out Frank's article (it's on

> the to-read list, which keeps growing ever-longer...).

>

> So I'm guessing this doesn't tell us anything new or interesting about

> World Cup Soccer? (Not that it was a particularly influential title...) Or

> Jobs's design abilities at the time?

>

>

> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Martin Goldberg <wgungfu at gmail.com>wrote:

>

>> Devin, nothing significant other than it's a pre-Apple Steve Jobs

>> document. Just shows the type of low level tech work he was doing for Atari

>> on the nightshift. I know the person who was auctioning that off (they wish

>> to remain anonymous) and they more than got their money's worth between

>> that and the Apple I.

>>

>>

>> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 4:50 AM, Devin Monnens <dmonnens at gmail.com>wrote:

>>

>>>

>>> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57442500-37/steve-jobs-1974-memo-to-atari-to-be-auctioned/

>>>

>>> This is old news, but I thought some folks here would have been aware of

>>> it. The memo sold for $27k - quite a lot for five sheets of paper.

>>>

>>>

>>> http://news.cnet.com/8301-10797_3-57454271-235/steve-jobs-atari-memo-sells-for-$27500/

>>>

>>> Marty - have you seen this document? Is there any significant

>>> information on it?

>>>

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