ANTIC Interview 44 - Joe Decuir, Atari 400/800 Designer
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Hello, and welcome to another interview edition of Antic, the Atari 8-bit Podcast. \\xa0I am Randy Kindig. \\xa0I am extremely honored to bring to you today an interview with one of the true pioneers of the personal computer, one of the primary designers of the Atari 400 & 800, Mr. Joe Decuir. \\xa0Joe worked closely with Jay Miner, Steve Mayer and others to design a computer in the days when personal computers were just in their infancy. \\xa0Joe shares with us the thoughts and reasoning that went into the design of the 400 & 800 and thus brings all of us a little closer to being a part of an amazing time in computer history. \\xa0Please enjoy!
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\\n\\u201cwe wanted to build the next great game system and we wanted to build a computer\\u201d
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\\n\\u201cwe were designing for home users not office people\\u201d
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\\n\\u201cWe don\'t get to have slots; that drove us crazy\\u201d
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\\n\\u201cIn retrospect, I wish we had built an 800-series machine with one built-in disk drive that was right on the bus\\u201d
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