ANTIC Interview 246 - Harry McCracken, Technology Journalist

Published: Oct. 24, 2016, 7 a.m.

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Harry McCracken, Technology Journalist

Harry McCracken is a technology journalist \\u2014 he\'s technology editor at Fast Company magazine. He cut his teeth on the TRS-80 and Atari 400 computers, including writing for Creative Computing magazine, and creating a game that he wanted to publish with Atari Program Exchange, but didn\'t finish.\\xa0

This interview took place on September 27, 2016.

Harry on Twitter: https://twitter.com/harrymccracken

"...fact about the Atari 400 was that it had maybe the worst keyboard in the history of computing. ... Oddly enough I don\'t remember having trouble with the keyboard, maybe because when you\'re programming, it is, generally speaking, not about the speed at which you type."

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