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Androbot, a San Jose, Calif., company, planned to go public in June largely on the reputation of its chief backer, Atari Founder Nolan Bushnell, and some 4-ft-high rolling robots exhibited at trade shows. Even though the company was less than 18 months old and had lost money on each of the 400 robots it had sold, Merrill Lynch valued the initial public offering at $73 million. Eventually the company and its bankers decided to postpone the issue...
...biggest shortages is in home computers. An estimated 2.5 million will be sold this Christmas, nearly twice as many as last year. But such manufacturers as Commodore and Atari have been able to fill only about two-thirds of their orders. The home-computer price war that followed last summer's glut of the devices has helped stimulate demand to a record level. When Computer Programmer Lawrence Hoyle bought a Commodore 64 as a present for his nieces and nephews last week at a K mart in Lawrence, Kans., he paid about $500 for the computer, software...
...Swiss Psychologist Jean Piaget and research done at M.I.T.'s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, teaches some of the most profound ideas in computer science by having children draw complex geometric patterns with a few simple commands. Versions of Logo have been available on such machines as the Apple, Atari, Commodore and Texas Instruments computers for more than a year. Now Digital Research has introduced Dr. Logo, an expanded edition for the IBM PC and compatible machines that emphasizes the language's ability to manipulate words and ideas. Price...
...Lode Runner, a climbing, jumping, chase adventure. The player controls a realistically animated galactic commando, who must recover a fortune in stolen gold before he is nabbed by a gang of bare-chested imperial guards. The program also lets creative gamesters design their own underground labyrinths. For Apple, Atari and Commodore computers...
...place and then perform like the real thing. Players can paint the pinball pieces bright colors, set up complex scoring patterns, or adjust the time, gravity and elasticity of the playing area. An added advantage: a computerized pinball machine will not malfunction because of a tilt. For Apple and Atari computers from Electronic Arts: $40. -By Philip Elmer-DeWitt. Reported by Michael Moritz/San Francisco