Chadcast – The Gospel According to St Pong II (3/7/14)
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53:28 – In 1973 a relatively new employee Chad Bowers was tasked with reading the then new Atari company newsletter.
This is the second remaining episode
Atari’s in-house newsletter was called The Gospel According to St. Pong. (“Founded in service to the Atari family,†read the masthead.) There had been a company-wide contest to come up with a name, and “a committee of Atarians†chose from a list of candidates. Dennis Flinn of the purchasing department was the winner.
License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/).
Attribution: Attribution: by Chad Bowers – more info at titfos.tumblr.com or onsug.com
Presented  March 2014 on The Overnightscape Underground: an Internet talk radio channel, focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.
Hooray for the Chadcast and the St. Pong Newsletter!!!! (Haven’t heard it yet; will review it in an upcoming p’cast). I am EXCITED!
Comment by Jimbo — March 7, 2014 @ 3:19 pm
This was indeed golden stuff… what, no more Pong newsletters?? Very sad.
Comment by Jimbo — March 8, 2014 @ 11:02 am
http://www.ftp.pigwa.net/stuff/collections/Atari%20newsletters/(The%20Gospel%20According%20to)%20St.%20Pong/st_pong_v1n6.pdf one more…. 🙂
Comment by pqribber — March 8, 2014 @ 11:09 am
Chad, I am a couple of days ahead in my part of the podcasting – but I did indeed start the podcast I completed today with a review of your latest venture. (Thumbs up on it, wink).
Comment by Jimbo — March 9, 2014 @ 6:18 pm
i have really enjoyed these pong readings. i have always liked reading this kind of stuff. but to hear it read aloud is really interesting. it’s conjuring up that time and place and mood for me the way a good radio drama might.
i just skimmed the pdf pq linked to. it looks like there is trouble in paradise in the next installment.
Comment by Nate in Wisconsin — March 12, 2014 @ 8:03 pm
Thanks Nate. Me too.
Comment by chad bowers — March 31, 2014 @ 8:39 am