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Sep 15, 2026

Alex SmithHOST
34:39
Went on to the Ford Motor Company and was doing work for them for a couple of years, and then joined Atari in May of 1977.
Alex SmithHOST
34:47
His first project when we, he was there was actually an unreleased hardware project, code-named Project Rosemary, that we don't really know much of anything about except that it was using a Signetics chipset, and that it was a home system.
Alex SmithHOST
35:00
It appears that Atari was doing a lot of exploratory work around home systems.
Alex SmithHOST
35:05
They didn't know if the VCS was gonna be a success.
Alex SmithHOST
35:08
They didn't know how long the VCS was gonna be successful, and so they had a few different projects going on at this time.
Alex SmithHOST
35:13
Signetics had a video game chipset.
Alex SmithHOST
35:15
It made its way into a lot of European consoles, which we've talked about in our European console episode.
Alex SmithHOST
35:21
So we don't have to talk about that here, but Atari was actually working with presumably that chipset, because I don't know what other Signetics chipset they would've worked with in that time period.

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