ANTIC Interview 77 - Tandy Trower, Atari Product Manager
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Tandy Trower, Atari product manager
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\\nTandy Trower started at Atari evaluating software titles, then moved on to the position of product manager, managing new titles including Missile Command, Asteroids, and the port of Microsoft BASIC for the Atari. Then, he left Atari for Microsoft, where \\u2014 once again, he managed Microsoft BASIC for the Atari. Tandy also wrote the Character Set Editor program which was sold by Atari Program Exchange.
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\\nThis interview took place May 13, 2015.
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\\n\\u201cThe Atari executives were so impressed with Bill [Gates] at the time that they flew up in their corporate jet to Seattle and offered to try to acquire Microsoft. But Bill and Paul [Allen] were not interested in selling at all at that time.\\u201d
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\\n\\u201cIf you had a title, you had to make sure there was an engineer who was available and interested in doing it. So if you couldn\\u2019t talk an engineer into writing it \\u2014 unless you were going to write it yourself. Except for me, there were very few people in the marketing department that could write their own code.\\u201d
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