ANTIC Interview 52 - Cassie Maas, Atari Marketing & Tech Support
Cassie Maas, Atari Marketing and Tech Support
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\nCassie Maas started at Atari as a sales order processing clerk; then as a member of the marketing team, she evaluated new product ideas; then she worked in technical support, where she was the high-end technical support for word processing, and managed a BBS for user groups. She contributed to the 1984 book "InfoWorld's Essential Guide to Atari" and wrote for Antic magazine and Infoworld.
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\nThis interview occurred on April 6 and April 14 2015. Check the show notes atAtariPodcast.com to see the letter to Spencer Villwock that we discuss, plus links to her Atari writing.
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\nLinks
\nhttp://i.imgur.comCassie's letter to Spenserp5IW6MC.jpg
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\nInfoWorld's Essential Guide to Atari
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\nCassie's articles in Antic magazine
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\nTeaser quotes:
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\n\u201cI was really excited about the computer and I said, \u2018Do you think I could get a job there?\u2019 He laughed and snorted... Within a year I not only had a job at Atari, I had his job.\u201d
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\n\u201cI\u2019m not accepting your resignation. You\u2019re going to be laid off like everybody else, on Friday, with a severance package!\u201d
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\n\u201cThat place was a fiasco. That place was just - woah! Money was being spent willy-nilly on all kinds of crazy things. People were sleeping with each other. People were cheating on their spouses. I mean, just crazy, crazy stuff went on.\u201d
\n\u201cSo inside I\u2019m totally freaking out, I\u2019m this young kid, I don\u2019t know, am I in really serious trouble? Am I breaking the law?\u201d