[game_preservation] 1974 Atari memo by Jobs

[Alex Handy]

Isn't that fictional design company what he used to get paid for
Breakout? Woz actually refined the chipset for Breakout, but Jobs took
all the money for the project. He's the classic non-programming
startup guy. Frankly, I think Jobs' lack of technical expertise is
what drove him to be so obsessive: he wanted to work as hard as the
engineers he worked with, but he couldn't program, so instead, he
worked hard by working them hard.

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Benj Edwards
<editor at vintagecomputing.com> wrote:

> I think the biggest thing it speaks to was Jobs' hubris and immaturity at

> the time.  He put "Steve Jobs / All-One Design" on the title page of the

> memo.  He was a regular employee of Atari, if I'm not mistaken, but he

> pretended he was doing contract work on behalf of his own fictional design

> company.

>

> By the way, I think I found a complete PDF of the memo set here:

> http://www.atarigames.com/pdffiles/stevejobs.pdf

>

> I can guess who sold it, but I suppose I won't say.

>

> Benj

>

>

> On 2/13/2013 11:28 AM, Devin Monnens 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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>>> Devin Monnens

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