ANTIC Interview 466 - John Victor, Program Design Inc.

Podcast: ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast · Randy Kindig, Kay Savetz, Brad Arnold

Opublikowano: 2026-10-10

John Victor, Program Design Inc. John Victor was founder and president of Program Design Inc., one of the earliest publishers of educational software. Based in Greenwich CT, PDI created dozens of educational software titles and a few not-so-educational games for Atari 8-bit, Commodore PET and 64, TRS-80, Apple II, and Texas Instruments computers. Software marketed by PDI included Moonbase IO, Sammy the Sea Serpent, and Preparing for the SAT (which was probably the first SAT prep software for any home computer). PDI also created "An Invitation to Programming", the casette-based BASIC programming primer sold by Atari. That may have been the fi...