Whatever Happened To....

Nolan Bushnell, Jay Miner, Neil Harris, Chris Crawford, Tom Hudson, Shiraz Shivji, Alan Alda, Ian Chadwick, James Capparell, and hundreds more... Where did these people go? Did they join a seminary? Die in a tragic hunting accident in upstate New York? Get tired of seeing their hard work pirated and move on to larger markets? Never get another acting job after being a spokesman for Atari Computers? Enquiring minds want to know!

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Alan Alda

- Television Spokesman for Atari, Inc. in the early '80's.
Actually, Alan was put up as a joke - but it was the first question I received... Alan Alda is doing fine - He's the host of Scientific American Frontiers on PBS. You can get some information about this fascinating show at PBS Online.

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Ian Chadwick

-Author of COMPUTE!'s Mapping The Atari. Still one of the most useful 8-bit books around.
-Ian seems to be having a grand old time. He's a journalist, and still lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Take a trip to his site to learn about his passion for Triumph motorcyles, his involvement with a budding union, his biography of Henry Hudson and some of his other interests. He has also put up some interesting links. Note: Ian's site is very graphics intensive, and uses frames.

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Chris Crawford

- Programmer of Eastern Front 1941 and Balance of Power.

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Colleen & Candy

- Code names for the legendary (IMHO) 400 & 800, the tanks that started it all. Were these real people?
- Yes, Colleen and Candy, Colleen being the Atari 800 and Candy the 400 were 2 well endowed female employees. In fact almost all the original hardware projects were named after well endowed Atari female employees. The Atari 2600 was Stella, the Atari 3600 (never came out, a horrible 10-bit processor design) was Sylvia and the Atari 5200 was PAM, actually the Atari 5200 was almost going to be called the Atari P.A.M. which stood for "Personal Arcade Machine".

Curt Vendel
cvendel@aol.com
Atari Prototypes & Vaporwares Site

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Michael J. Des Chenes

- Editor/Publisher of A.N.A.L.O.G. Magazine.
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Dave Munsie

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Fernando Herrera

- Fernando was a prolific Atari 8-bit programmer, and was the recipient of the first "Atari Star" award.
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Tom Hudson

- DEGAS, DEGAS Elite, CAD-3D, Cyber Control, Cyber Sculpt, and more
- 3 Sep 98 Someone says that they believe that Tom is/was a principle programmer with the Yost Group, the people that produced 3d Studio.

I enquired at 3D-Connection, which is actually unrelated, and Walter Vestergaard was kind enough to reply. In essence, Walter says that he believes the info is correct, Tom did work for the Yost Group, but doesn't know where he is today. Walter suggests I try to mail Kinetix to see if they know. Walter also forwarded the info to a local (Denmark) 3D group, in the event that any of them might know.

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Sheldon Leemon

- Atari Programmer and Author. B/ series of programs, and COMPUTE!'s Technical Reference Guide (among others).
- I believe that Sheldon works for Computer Shopper magazine.
- 3 Sep 98 - Jeff Potter writes to say that Sheldon is a free-lance writer now, still writing about personal computers. Sheldon gave Jeff his business card at a recent computer show.

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Alan Page

- Programmer of Flash!
- Now works for MGI (CalamusSL and CalamusNT creators) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Lee Pappas

- Editor/Publisher of A.N.A.L.O.G. Magazine.
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Shiraz Shivji

- "Father of the ST"

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Donald A. Thomas

- long-time Atari fan; Atari, Artisan Software, founder of "The Revolution"
- Donald now works for Sony America. I'll put some more information up in a while, but for the moment, you can check out Donald's I. C. When site that covers the history of video games and computers. We're talking history here too - he starts back in 2600 B.C.. It is easy to navigate, and crammed with information, much of it Atari-specific. Note that this site uses frames. Donald will keep the site up as long as there is interest. Let's not lose it, tell your friends.

Thanks to Len Stys for pointing this site out on c.s.a.st

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Clayton Walnum

- Was an editor of A.N.A.L.O.G. and wrote C-Manship Complete.
-Clayton is still writing programming manuals, just for a different market. He hasn't forgotten his roots though. Visit his site and you'll have a chance to relive some memories as you view the covers of old ANALOG issues and his C-Manship Complete, and read his comments on them. In addition, you can get some information on Clayton's current projects. You can also email Clayton at cwalnum@connix.com

   I'd like to thank whoever pointed me in the direction of Clayton's site. Unfortunately, my old form didn't request names or email addresses, so I can't do it directly.
   You'll notice that I've used both "A.N.A.L.O.G." and "ANALOG" when referring to ANALOG Computing magazine. Here is what Clayton had to say on the matter:

As for A.N.A.L.O.G. vs. ANALOG, the magazine title started off with the periods (it stood for "Atari Newsletter and Lots of Games"), but later we dropped the periods, keeping the uppercase.