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...company, Acoustic Research in Cambridge, Mass., at the age of 22. It made stereo speakers, and he eventually sold it to his partner. Headstrong and impulsive, Kloss has since gone on to establish three more home electronics firms, including Advent, which is now in receivership. His latest is Kloss Video, which makes large-screen-projection TV sets and was started in 1977. But Kloss may now be too tired for another new venture. Says he: "Each one of those enterprises started with a bare room, and I don't have the heart for it again...
...Vatican officials caught on to the ruse only after a bishop came on the line to act as translator. In 1972, Jobs entered Oregon's Reed College, but he left two years later to ease his family's financial hardships. He then took a job designing video games at Atari. Wozniak, meanwhile, had dropped out of Berkeley to become a designer at Hewlett-Packard. After hours, Wozniak worked hard building a small, easy-to-use computer. In 1976 he succeeded. The pint-size machine was smaller than a portable typewriter, but it could do the feats of much...
From the start, the Apple team did almost everything right. First they redesigned the prototype into a trim, spiffy model called Apple II. Jobs insisted that the cases for the keyboard and video display be made of light, attractive plastic instead of metal. They also wrote clear, concise instruction manuals that made the machine easy for consumers to use. Sales surged from $2.7 million in 1977 to $200 million...
Nolan Bushnell, 39 last week, is the inventor of Pong, a kind of electronic Ping Pong that was the first successful coin-operated video game. The son of a Clearfield, Utah, cement contractor, Bushnell had a passion for amateur radio as a boy (call letters: W7DUK). That led to his first business: repairing radios, television sets and washing machines. He earned a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Utah in 1968. While there, he toyed with computers. He came up with Pong in 1971 and started selling the coin-operated game...
...Bushnell sold Atari to Warner Communications for $28 million. He stayed on with Warner for a while, but was increasingly uneasy inside the large corporation. When Warner displayed no interest in his idea for a chain of pizza parlors featuring video games, Bushnell stormed out to start Pizza Time Theatre. There are now 85 outlets in five states, where robots named Chuck E. Cheese, Mister Munch and Madame Oink perform vaudeville acts and tell corny jokes to the smell of pizza and the sounds of roaring video games...