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1.13) Who designed the Atari 8-bit computers?
Credit for providing some of this information for the FAQ goes to: Doug Neubauer (by way of James Finnegan), Jerry Jessop, Scott Emmons, http://www.digitpress.com/ Atari 400/800 hardware engineers: Steven T. Mayer - early system design, overall plan Joseph C. Decuir - ANTIC logic desgin, early system design, overall plan Jay G. Miner - System architect (became manager of development of both VLSI custom chips and OS software), overall plan Douglas G. Neubauer - POKEY logic design (also wrote: Star Raiders) George McLeod - CTIA/GTIA logic design Ronald E. Milner - early system design Francois Michel - ANTIC design Mark Shieu - POKEY chip design Steve Stone - POKEY layout design Steve Smith - Technician for ANTIC and GTIA Delwin Pearson - Technician for POKEY Kevin McKinsey - 400/800 case design Atari 400/800 Operating System software engineers: David Crane - OS design, programming Larry Kaplan - OS design, programming (also wrote: Video Easel, Super Breakout) Alan Miller - OS design, programming (also wrote: Basketball) Harry Stewart - consultant, OS design Gary Palmer - worked on the I/O portion Ian Shepard - disk drive functions Atari 400/800 Operating System Revision B fixes: Michael P. Mahar/R. Scott Scheiman Atari 1200XL/600XL/800XL hardware engineers: Gregg Squires - head of engineering. Reported to Steve Mayer at WCI Labs in New York. Regan Cheng - XL case design. Reported to Roy Nishi, industrial design group, Sunnyvale. Atari 1200XL Operating System (Revisions 10, 11): H. Stewart/Lane Winner/R. Scott Scheiman/Y. M. Chen/M. W. Colburn Atari 600XL/800XL Operating System (Revisions 1, 2): R. S. Scheiman/Richard K. Nordin/Y. M. Chen Atari XE systems hardware designer/engineer: Jose A. Valdes - at Atari from October 1979 - August 1989.
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