Atari 8-bit quote of the day...

[RodCastler]

Hi all,

 

Since great interviews are being born these days, some good thoughts worth quoting may come up.

 

I invite you to pick your own favorites, and bring them here. I'll get it started with this one I particularly like:

 

"Hang on to the equipment and your magazines. Hang on to the iconic stuff that represented a time that's only yesterday, long gone and will never be repeated... It's over (…) If it's important to you, keep it on your desk, or bundle it up and store it for your kids. It'll be a collector's item if it's not already."

Jim Capparell - Founder of Antic Magazine, sharing an advice to his audience. - Antic the Atari 8-bit Podcast Episode 3, 2013.

Edited November 28, 2014 by RodCastler

[576XE]

I love video but I think that 90% of info comes to me in text form.

 

FE I love to read this forum!

If you'll try to see XEROX early desktops you will see the same tiles like in win 8...

Content rules but form.

[+therealbountybob]

What 2 days and no new quote so here's one from me:

"I could play Trolls and Tribulations until I'm blue in the face"

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/231971-hsc11-round-21-t-cavemen-trolls-tales-dragons-tribulations/

[+slx]

Much to my wife's chagrin I heed Mr. Capparell's advice almost to the letter and even acquired some hardware I would only have loved to have in my youth.

 

His 'only yesterday, long gone and never to be repeated' made me think when I heard it on ANTIC as he was talking about my youth...

 

My quote for the day:

"You missed the golden dawn of computer gaming if you never aborted a game with lots of lives left and beyond any level a beginner could reach just because you knew those lives would not be enough to conquer new levels and it would take less time to start over than to play until your lives were exhausted.'

[RodCastler]

"It was just typical american corporate crap. They gave it up. They didn't have what it took to win that business. They owned it!! And they gave it up..."

Jim Capparell - Founder of Antic Magazine, referring to why Atari lost their share of the business - Antic Podcast Episode 3.

[RodCastler]

"We go into this just trying to get as close to what happened as possible (...) It's just so disheartening when you do the research into it and you find out that's either a) not how it happened or b) it never happened..."

 

Marty Goldberg, co-author of “Atari Inc.: Business is Fun” and Atari historian, referring to how research showed that some of the well known stories around Nolan Bushnell turned out to be inaccurate. Taken from his Interview with Antic Atari Podcast 2014.

[RodCastler]

"When they were clearing out the corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale (…) we paid for the rights to go through the building and get anything that had the Atari label on it (…) we got some stuff out of there that's just unbelievable, it's hard to describe."

Brad Koda, proprietor of Best Electronics during his Interview with Antic Atari Podcast, December 2014.

[RodCastler]

"Let's put it this way: I enjoy it so much -seven days a week- that my plan right now is to work until I drop."

Brad Koda, proprietor of Best Electronics when being asked about how long he thinks he will continue doing Atari related business. Taken from his Interview with Antic Atari Podcast, December 2014.

[RodCastler]

"I have never been able to get a feel for the hardware and software interaction as I could with the Atari 8-bit. So if you still have a love for these little beasts, I completely understand. For me, there will always be a soft spot in my heart for them and for the many years I spent with them."

Bill Wilkinson, of Optimized Systems Software. Taken from his Interview with Antic Atari Podcast, December 2014.

[Bryan]

 

"It was just typical american corporate crap. They gave it up. They didn't have what it took to win that business. They owned it!! And they gave it up..."

Jim Capparell - Founder of Antic Magazine, referring to why Atari lost their share of the business - Antic Podcast Episode 3.

 

Boy, there's a MILLION examples of this. The biggest one in my book is Xerox. PARC developed the GUI. They spent all kinds of money developing things like that. And yet, no one higher up in Xerox saw any potential in it. As Steve Jobs said, they could have owned the computer business.

[RodCastler]

"... And I fairly love the 8-bit machine. Other people, you know, they love the TRS-80, the Apple II. I think it's whatever machine seems interesting and exciting is the one you want to work on... and that was the Atari for me."

David Small, co-founder of LE Systems, columnist of Creative Computer Magazine and co-editor of the book Creative Atari. Taken from his Interview with Antic Atari Podcast, September 2014.

Edited March 12, 2015 by RodCastler