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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