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Must read: this epic history of Pong
If you’ve got the time, Buzzfeed’s 4,500 word history of the early days of Atari and the development of Pong is a delight. Apart from what is clealry a still-simmering beef between Magnavox Odyssey mastermind Ralph Baer (age 90) and Atari (and Chuck-E-Cheese!) founder Nolan Bushnell (age 69), my favorite part concerns Atari’s early days of revenue collection: Steve Bristow, another Ampex alum who followed Bushnell, Dabney, and Alcorn to Atari, had to schlep five pounds of quarters to his car when he collected each machine’s earnings. By the end of the collection route, Bristow could be carrying 30-pound bags over…