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Anecdotes: Magnavox and Intel: An Odyssey
July-September 2009 (vol. 31 no. 3)
pp. 64-67
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Stanley Mazor, Peter Salmon, "Anecdotes: Magnavox and Intel: An Odyssey," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 64-67, July-September, 2009.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MAHC.2009.35,
author = {Stanley Mazor and Peter Salmon},
title = {Anecdotes: Magnavox and Intel: An Odyssey},
journal ={IEEE Annals of the History of Computing},
volume = {31},
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issn = {1058-6180},
year = {2009},
pages = {64-67},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MAHC.2009.35},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Today we have high-resolution videogames connected to our television sets, but let us reflect on a pioneering system in this field from 30 years ago. As an Intel applications engineer in 1976, my job (Mazor) was to find new customer applications for microcomputers and to translate customer needs to chip designers like Peter Salmon, who used our technology to solve customer problems. Analog integrated circuits (ICs) were prominently used in the entertainment products, but digital circuits were just making their debut particularly with digital readouts for time, station, and counters.

1. S. Mazor, "The History of the Microcomputer," Readings in Computer Architecture, M. Hill, N. Jouppi, and G. Sohi eds., Morgan Kaufman, 2000, p. 60.
2. The 8244 utilized a novel content addressable memory to detect matches. S. Schwartz, P. Salmon, and G. Bastian, "Video Display Circuit for Games," US patent 4,169,262, to Intel Corp., Patent and Trademark Office, 1979.
3. E. Averett interview by J. Hague on "Halycon Days," http://www.dadgum.com/halcyon/BOOKAVERETT.HTM .
4. Ted Szczypiorski, an amateur game developer, said his favorite Odyssesy2 game is K.C. Munchkin. He likes its "smooth graphics—even the sound is good." See http://odyssey2.classicgaming.gamespy.com/ articles/tedsindex.php.

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Anecdotes, Magnavox, Intel
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Stanley Mazor, Peter Salmon, "Anecdotes: Magnavox and Intel: An Odyssey," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 64-67, July-Sept. 2009, doi:10.1109/MAHC.2009.35
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