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Atari's 30th Anniversary
Atarian writes "Atari was officially incorporated 30 years ago. While many thought Atari started the video game business, that was not correct, it was Magnavox and its Odyssey console designed by Ralph Baer that would be the first. Atari would be the company that would put videogames on the map right from the start back in 1972 with the release of PONG, its coin-op arcade machine first setup in Andy Capps Bar in California, the game was a smash hit and people begin lining up first thing in the morning at Andy Capps just to get inside and play games on this magic box with a TV inside. Atari would then release its VCS (Video Computer System aka The Atari 2600) and launch Atari from its meager $500 starter capital beginnings into a $2 billion dollars in sales monster in 1982. Atari would later fall to the wayside to be replaced by Nintendo, then Sega, and othes that followed. Atari is still around in a small way, and still keeping the name and spirit alive to this very day, 30 years later. 'Have you played Atari today?'"
The smart thing to do is not always the right thing to do. If you do the right thing, you are damn smart.
I liked that... nice one
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Comparing it to Windows will be a moot point, since El Dorado is going to have a 40% larger code base than XP.
More likely the CEO is the guy who presided over the company's biggest ever loss, yet still "earns" a multi-million bonus.
Alternatively, he's just "lost" $4 billion somewhere and needs to save some cash - it's never the people at the top who get the bullet, have you noticed that?
(Sick) Sweepstake time... which of the WorldCom guys is going to do the decent thing and follow the Enron example?
Her name is Cynthia Villanueva. She would put on a show for anyone who called the company in the early days. She'd yell for Nolan and he'd wait for a few moments before picking it up, making it sound like the company was bigger than it really was. She also helped stuff boards and put games together in those early days. Cynthia stayed with the company for more than a decade, long after the company was sold to Warner.
Has anyone made one? SOmeone had to ask!