In Hollywood that screened movie and television previews, when he made aĭiscovery that changed the course of his career – microcomputers. In 1977, Gordon was working for ASI Market Research, which operated a theatre Working for firms like Warner Communications, Gulf & Western, and Paramount. Years as an accountant and computer controller in the entertainment industry, When he was 18, his family moved to Los Angeles where Gordon earned a master’sĭegree in accounting from Cal State Los Angeles in 1964 (it was the one major with no foreign language requirement). A native of Brooklyn, Gordon attended high school in New York City. International was primarily the brainchild of two men: Mel Norell and Dave One that I hope will lead someone else to pick up the mantle and pen the That regard (I wasn’t able to find out much info about it myself), it is a And while this article is woefully inadequate in Importance, however, the company has been largely forgotten and little has been Games like Star Voyager and Battlestar I. Of games ranging from simple text games to clones of arcade games ( Clowns & Balloons and Apple Invaders) to more sophisticated Among its many offerings were utilities, business applications (including the seminal world processor Apple Pie), and a host In fact, Programma was the biggest distributor of Apple II software in the world in 1980. Publishers, with its 80-page catalog listing 300 titles (not all of them games) for the Apple II, Commodore PET, TRS 80, and Remember Progamma for their “crude” games (most written in Integer BASIC) sold atīargain-basement prices, but Programma was one of the earliest and largest PC software Talk about one of the more interesting software publishers of the personalĬomputer industry’s early years – Programma International. Today, I take a brief break from my “literary history” to
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