ANTIC Interview 84 - John Schulte and Feridoon Moinian, Dorsett Educational Systems
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John Schulte and Feridoon Moinian, Dorsett Educational Systems
\\nJohn Schulte and Feridoon Moinian were both employees at Dorsett Educational Systems, the company that created the Talk And Teach educational cassette tapes which were sold by Atari. Dorsett also sold many more cassette-based classes directly via mail order, for the Atari, TRS-80 Color Computer, and other platforms. Feridoon worked primarily as a programmer, and John was primarily an editor.
\\nAs my co-interviewer for this discussion, I invited Thomas Cherryhomes, an expert in the technical aspects of the Talk and Teach system. I interviewed Thomas previously on this podcast, in ANTIC interview 57.
\\nNearly every educational cassette tape that Dorsett released for the Atari has been digitized, they\\u2019ll all available at Archive.org, there\\u2019s a link in the show notes at AtariPodcast.com.
\\nThis interview took place on June 25, 2015.
\\nTeaser quote:
\\n\\u201cHe [Loyd Dorsett] would tell them, \\u201cShall we go have lunch now?\\u2019 Yes. \\u2018OK, let\\u2019s go downstairs and we\\u2019ll have some lunch.\\u2019 He\\u2019d take them downstairs, and on top of the little five-foot refrigerator was a Styrofoam cup that had 10 Cents written on it. That was 10 cents that you\\u2019d do on the honor system to buy a packet of Cup of Soup. ... This is the way he would entertain people because you were stuck out in the middle of nowhere, it was 20 minutes to get to a restaurant. But he would actually pull coins out of his pocket and say \\u2018My treat.\\u2019\\u201d
\\nLINKS
\\nInterview with Thomas Cherryhomes
\\nDorsett Educational Cassette Tape Archive
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