ANTIC Interview 125 - Tom Harker, ICD
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Tom Harker, ICD
\\nTom Harker was co-founder of ICD, a company that created many popular add-ons for the Atari 8-bit computers including P:R: Connection, U.S. Doubler, and SpartaDOS. Later, they created several upgrades for the Atari ST and Amiga computers, and the CatBox networking hardware for the Atari Jaguar.
\\nAccording to a 1987 article in Antic magazine, "Tom Harker started ICD in his basement in Rockford, Illinois, with Mike Gustafson, who then lived in Minneapolis. The company was incorporated in 1984, with Harker as president and Gustafson as vice president in charge of development."
\\nThis interview took place on January 19, 2016.
\\nTeaser quote:
\\n\\u201cIt started out, when we did the U.S. Doublers, I was assembling all of those myself and we were baking them in our oven. We potted them in epoxy so people wouldn\\u2019t copy it. ... I remember baking them to cure the epoxy in my oven. My wife loved it.\\u201d
\\nLinks
\\nTom\\u2019s ICD memorial site: http://www.icd.com
\\nAntic Magazine article about ICD: http://www.atarimagazines.com/v5n12/ICD.html
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