Tag: Atari

Tech Time Warp: On the hunt for technology easter eggs
Tech Time Warp: On the hunt for technology easter eggs
Have you ever typed “answer to life, the universe, and everything” into Google? In a nod to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Google returns “42” as a calculator result. Or perhaps you’ve explored the police call box on the...

Pioneers in Tech: Jerry Lawson, pre-Atari game console designer
Pioneers in Tech: Jerry Lawson, pre-Atari game console designer
In the nascent days of video games, gaming consoles had limitations — namely, users were limited to one game, such as Al Alcorn’s groundbreaking Pong. But a group of engineers at the semiconductor company Fairchild — including the subject of...