Semi-related, I'm remember hearing an interview with Rich Pasco [1] on the ANTIC podcast. He was a former Xerox PARC researcher who ended up at Atari (which is

Semi-related, I'm remember hearing an interview with Rich Pasco [1] on the ANTIC podcast. He was a former Xerox PARC researcher who ended up at Atari (which is in and of itself interesting). One of the projects he lead was trying to get an 80 column display running on the computer, but he couldn't get Atari executives buy in because it was common wisdom that you couldn't read high resolution character displays on TVs. He rigged up a demo of a video camera pointed at a book with more than 80 characters per line and showed that it was legible. The story (as well as some of his others) are really interesting. 1 - http://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-28-rich-pasco-atari http://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-28-rich-pasco...