Uploaded January 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Mark Rustad worked at Minnesota Educational
Computing Consortium (MECC) where he developed "Classroom Star",
classroom networking hardware for the Atari 8-bits -- a product
that was not released by Atari. Then he worked at Atari 1983-1984
as Systems Project Leader, where he troubleshooted the DTMF dialing
on the Atari 1030 modem. We also talk about Mark’s work with the
PLATO educational computer system.

Software provided by Mark: archive.org/details/Rustad_Atari_8bit

Classroom Star mentioned in Creative Computing magazine: atarimagazines.com/creative/v10n7/206_The_1450_XLD_is_not_dead.php