Did you know Atari almost sold a product that worked using mind control! (If by “mind control”, you mean “eyebrows”.) These ended up being buried in a landfill in Alamagordo along with the infamous E.T. cartridges.
Nathan Alter lives in Albuquerque with his wife and kids. He currently develops in C#/.NET, but is learning all the time and has enjoyed computers since programming in Basic on an Atari 400 as a teenager. He started blogging in 1999.