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Published · transcript-backedNolan Bushnell: evaluation
15 Oct 2019 Acquired Atari (with Nolan Bushnell)
“The screens that were on the computers were all vector graphics because raster scan wants 3.”
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- Speaker
- Nolan Bushnell
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- evaluation
- Recorded
- 15 Oct 2019
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Atari (with Nolan Bushnell)
Transcript context
…Ampex made recording equipment for Hollywood and the music industry. Exactly. What I learned there was really polishing my digital skills and my video skills. We had the big computers, I learned how to program. The computers we were working on had a clock speed of 750 kHz. The screens that were on the computers were all vector graphics because raster scan wants 3. 58 MHz of data. If your computers are going at 750 kHz, now they had a wide address space, 64 bits so you could do some serious calculations but they weren't fast at all. Yeah, the ball on the screen or the Space Invaders weren't going to move very fast.…
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