Uploaded December 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Kathleen O'Brien worked at Shepardson Microsystems, where she wrote
the Atari Assembler Editor cartridge, and wrote the floating point
routines in Atari BASIC. (Her husband Paul Laughton wrote the rest
of Atari BASIC.) She, along with Bill Wilkinson and Paul Laughton,
co-founded Optimized Systems Software, where she wrote much of the
book “Atari BASIC Source Book”.

Atari BASIC Source Book: archive.org/stream/ataribooks-the-atari-basic-source-book/theataribasicsourcebook#page/n0/mode/2up

Bill Wilkinson interview: youtu.be/4g2K9A_MyuM

Paul Laughton interview: youtu.be/aQjtzZc9e_w