ANTIC Interview 125 - Tom Harker, ICD - a podcast by Randy Kindig, Kay Savetz, Brad Arnold
from 2016-02-02T08:00
Tom Harker, ICD
Tom Harker was co-founder of ICD, a company that created many popular add-ons for the Atari 8-bit computers including P:R: Connection, U.S. Doubler, and SpartaDOS. Later, they created several upgrades for the Atari ST and Amiga computers, and the CatBox networking hardware for the Atari Jaguar.
According to a 1987 article in Antic magazine, "Tom Harker started ICD in his basement in Rockford, Illinois, with Mike Gustafson, who then lived in Minneapolis. The company was incorporated in 1984, with Harker as president and Gustafson as vice president in charge of development."
This interview took place on January 19, 2016.
Teaser quote:
“It started out, when we did the U.S. Doublers, I was assembling all of those myself and we were baking them in our oven. We potted them in epoxy so people wouldn’t copy it. ... I remember baking them to cure the epoxy in my oven. My wife loved it.”
Links
Tom’s ICD memorial site: http://www.icd.com
Antic Magazine article about ICD: http://www.atarimagazines.com/v5n12/ICD.html
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