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I haven't read the book yet but I did read an excerpt from it about Nolan Bushnell and the birth of Pong on [...]. Unfortunately, there are many facts in the article that are wrong. It looks like Isaacson wrote whatever Bushnell told him and didn't bother to fact check annything. This is really a shame because Isaacson even wrote about Bushnell: "Bushnell had no shame about distorting reality in order to motivate people." I showed the excerpt to Ted Dabney, the co-founder of Atari, and here's what he had to say about it: "The author obviously didn't care too much about facts. Everything he wrote was out of Nolan Bushnell's mouth. Al Alcorn didn't join Atari until after we got our contract from Bally. He was never a partner of Syzygy or Atari. I was Busnell's only partner. Al was hired help at Atari. He was given a salery of $1,000 / month. Nolan Bushnell was not a "computer science student". He was an engineering student at the University of Utah. He was never promoted to the pinball and game arcade. He just hung around there. Jerry Brown, who was Secratary of State at the time, picked the name "Atari" from a list we had sent in when we were incorporating. The name "Syzygy" wasn't available. Bushnell helped prepare the list. Alcorn used the circuits that I created to design Pong. These were the same circuits that were used in Computer Space. Busnell didn't like the game that Al had designed. He still wanted a "driving game". It took some major persuasion to get him to go along with it. Pong never had a fiberglass cabinet. That was Computer Space. Wells Fargo gave us a loan for $3,000 which I had to guarantee. We did not get a $50,000 line of credit at that time. The first prodution runs were in our Santa Clara space not in the roller-rink." I know it's hard to let facts interfere with a good story but sometimes we have to try to get at least some of the important stuff right.