Allan Alcorn is 71 years old

It was Alcorn who recruited Steve Jobs in 1974, and was later involved in a historic meeting with him and Steve Wozniak, where the latter presented the prototype of the Apple 1 personal computer (then Jobs and Wozniak did NOT receive funding from Atari ), but the story could have been completely different if they had received it.

In 1981, Allan left Atari due to a disagreement with the new leader, Ray Kassar, who refused to launch the revolutionary video game Cosmos, created by Alcorn's team. This system used holograms for the playing field, creating a true 3D effect. Warner Communications (the owner of Atari) refused to pay the company's first engineer a decent dismissal bonus, but the issue was subsequently settled in court.

After Atari, Allan Alcorn worked for various Silicon Valley companies. It is worth recalling the project of the Cumma video game system, the cartridges for which could be reprogrammed in special terminals (which created a fundamentally new mechanism for distributing games). He also helped the Etak company, which created the first car navigator (not coincidentally, in most GPS navigators, the current location indicates the spaceship from the Asteroids game).

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