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Listen "ANTIC Interview 10 - The Atari 8-bit Podcast - Mark Rustad"
Episode Synopsis
Kevin interviews Mark Rustad, Mark worked at Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) where he developed "Classroom Star", classroom networking hardware for the Atari 8-bits -- a product that was not released by Atari. Then he worked at Atari 1983-1984 as Systems Project Leader, where he troubleshooted the DTMF dialing on the Atari 1030 modem. We also talk about Mark’s work with the PLATO educational computer system.
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Software provided by Mark
Classroom Star mentioned in Creative Computing magazine
LINKS
Software provided by Mark
Classroom Star mentioned in Creative Computing magazine
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