Listen "ANTIC Interview 230 - Michael Boucher, MECC"
Episode Synopsis
Michael Boucher, MECC Michael Boucher was a programmer at MECC — Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium — from September 1980 through August 1984, where he worked on educational software for the Apple // and Atari 8-bit computers. His projects included Oregon Trail and Odell Lake. This interview took place on June 14, 2016. Video of this interview: https://youtu.be/heuR8_eFFJI Teaser quotes: "I had the honor of working with the finest group of dropouts I have ever had the pleasure of associating with." "...Fairly sophisticated bit of code. And happily, nobody told us that it was hard, and being high school students, we didn't have the experience to know it was difficult. So we just did it."
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