ANTIC Interview 219 - Kathy Forte, Atari's early applications group
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Kathy Forte, Atari\'s early applications group
Kathy Forte worked at Atari in the applications group for about a year beginning late 1979. She worked on an unreleased relational database application, and for a while spent half of her work time as Atari\'s puppeteer.
This interview took place on April 27, 2016.
Teaser quotes:
"And it said \'What is the Atari 800?\' And I saw ... \'It\'s game machine! It\'s a personal computer! It\'s a salami sandwich!\'"
"Kind of a sarcastic game. ... The helicopter would spray malathion and people would become deformed. It was really sick!"
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