How much do you know about Atari's founding and early days?

• Nolan Bushnell adapted a toy for playing ping-pong on TV into a coin machine and called it Pong.
• Atari was founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney with an initial investment of $250 each.
• Atari grew into a $2-billion-a-year entertainment giant within ten years, making it the fastest-growing company in US history.
• Atari's first office was a crude 1,000-square-foot space in an inexpensive concrete building, made to house start-up companies.
• Bushnell and Dabney started a pinball route to create a steadier income base for the company.
• Cynthia Villanueva, a 17-year-old who used to babysit Bushnell's children, was Atari's first full-time employee.
• Villanueva was called upon to do everything from answering telephones to building electronic components and placing parts in cabinets.
• Al Alcorn was Atari's second employee, hired as the VP of engineering or sort of, VP of R & D.
• Alcorn was gifted in electronics and had learned how to repair televisions by taking an RCA correspondence course in high school.
• Alcorn accepted the job offer from Bushnell, which included a chance to own stock in the company and a company car.

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