onlysublime Posted May 17, 2012 Share Posted May 17, 2012 I saw this article at Kotaku with a couple employee cards... And it got me thinking, who were employees #1 and #2? http://kotaku.com/5910985/welcome-to-atari-sir-heres-your-1973-id-badge 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted May 17, 2012 Share Posted May 17, 2012 I would guess Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro Rogue Posted May 17, 2012 Share Posted May 17, 2012 Depends on how you count. Nolan and Ted didn't really consider themselves employees since they were the owners. There's also the matter of the actual first employee, Nolan's babysitter Cynthia V., w \ho became their secretary. She was hired before Al but doesn't usually get counted because Al was the first engineering hire. Also, they have it wrong in the article, that's just the hire date on the badge not when the badge was from. Badges were of course re-issued and numbers stayed with you for life even if you left and came back.The first badges through '73 were Syzygy badges. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telengard Posted May 18, 2012 Share Posted May 18, 2012 Looking at the first picture, maybe Alfred E Newman? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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