In addition to their professional partnership, the Atari founders were good friends. Alcorn went to fix it, it did not take him long to determine the problem: It was so full of quarters that no more could fit. The first Pong console, in Andy Capp’s Tavern in Sunnyvale, quickly broke down. “One moving spot, two score digits, and two paddles. Dabney made his breakthrough video circuitry system. Bushnell had seen running on a PDP1 mainframe computer at the University of Utah. Their first game was Computer Space, which was based on Spacewar!, a game that Mr. Alcorn, an engineer with whom they had worked at Ampex, was another early hire. Bushnell’s children, as the company’s receptionist and first employee. ![]() They hired Cynthia Villanueva, 17, a babysitter for Mr. When the name turned out to be taken, they switched to Atari. ![]() They left Ampex together in 1971 and started a company called Syzygy. Dabney had the engineering skills to bring the idea to life. ![]() Bushnell envisioned a game zone with pizza and coin-operated machines Mr. The men found inspiration in a computer system they had seen at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. “He was just all about ‘Let’s get it done,’ ” Mr. Bushnell, a charismatic engineer who had helped pay his way through college as a carnival barker.
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