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...ATARI. The king of video games, Atari is now offering home-computer buyers $60 worth of discounts on its extensive library of entertainment and educational programs. The Atari 400 model sells for less than $300. Atari officials like to point out that their computers also play many of the most popular video games, including Pac-Man, Asteroids and Space Invaders. Atari has about 17% of the inexpensive-computer market...
...next year, the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., which trains high-ranking officers for top command positions, will use a copy of the Janus program as a regular part of its ten-month curriculum. "Janus," says one of its Livermore admirers, "is light-years ahead of any Atari game...
...moment, interactive programs are being used or developed at Atari (the disc acts as an indefatigable salesman in the showroom); IBM; Sears, Roebuck (Looking for a gingham dress? You can find it on their videodisc catalogue); General Motors; the Smithsonian Institution; Walt Disney Productions; Xerox; and the National Gallery of Art (recording 16,000 works of art for scholarly delectation). As a teaching tool for schools, industry and museums, the interactive videodisc has an assured place...
...high-techers have also been dubbed the Atari Democrats, but at least one of them would like to change that nickname. "We prefer Apple Democrats," jokes Representative Tim Wirth of Colorado, referring to the successful home-computer company. "It sounds more American...
...contact data banks like Dow Jones from telephones anywhere. If brokerage houses and banking chains will cooperate, and if the Government will change its regulations, such machines could be used to move money from one account to another or order securities without going through brokers or tellers. Predicts Atari Founder Nolan Bushnell: "People will not pay bills by check within five years...