Information AboutAl Alcorn |
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Alcorn was the original designer of '' PONG '', creating it at the direction of Bushnell. Bushnell selected a simple Table Tennis game (a.k.a. Ping Pong) as a simple application to test feasibility, and all were pleasantly surprised how fun it was. It went on to be an amazing hit in the 1970s . The rest is history. Alcorn went on to be an Atari founder with Bushnell. In addition to direct involvement with all the breakout Atari products, such as the Atari 2600 , Alcorn was involved at some of the historic meetings of Steve Wozniak (at that time an Atari employee) and Steve Jobs presenting their Apple I prototype. After Warner bought Atari, Alcorn consulted to many fledging companies in Silicon Valley , especially involved in the startups of Catalyst Technologies Venture Capital , one of the first incubators, created by Nolan Bushnell and other ex-Atari leaders. Alcorn was involved in several of the startups directly, including Cumma , a re-programmable video game cartridge/kiosk system, and an advisor to Etak , one of the first practical, In-car Navigation systems. Alcorn later became an Apple Fellow , and led and consulted to a variety of startups during the tech boom. In 1998 , Alcorn founded Zowie Intertainment , a spinoff from Interval Research . There he developed a child's Playset with a location system that allowed a PC to respond to the child's play. EXTERNAL LINKS
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