When Atari and the IC industry were young, founder Nolan Bushnell told Atari engineer Al Alcorn that GE had commissioned the company to develop a ping-pong video game using 20 chips. Leslie Berlin’s book Troublemakers relates how Alcorn proceeded to invent the phenomenally successful Pong but it needed over 70 chips. Alcorn told Bushnell he ...
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