Ten years later,in nineteen seventy-two, an engineer named Nolan Bushnell and a programmer,Ted Dabney, started the Atari company in California.

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Even Atari , that classic garage company, actually began in the borrowed bedroom of one of Nolan Bushnell' s kids.

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Nolan Bushnell never appeared in those tributes, even though Apple was riffing on an iconoclastic philosophy he embraced while running video game pioneer Atari in the early 1970s.

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Nolan Bushnell has definite ideas about creativity.

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