ANTIC Interview 380 - Atari Speed Reading: Karlyn Kamm and Brad Oltrogge - a podcast by Randy Kindig, Kay Savetz, Brad Arnold
from 2020-04-26T03:09:38
Atari Speed Reading: Karlyn Kamm and Brad Oltrogge
The Atari Speed Reading software package was released by Atari in 1981. It was a self-paced program, for use with the Atari computer and a cassette drive, that promised to teach you to increase reading speed and comprehension with 30 days of practice. The package contained a workbook and five cassette tapes.
This is an interview with two of the people who created the Atari Speed Reading package. Karlyn Kamm created the speed reading educational material at the University of Wisconsin with Dr. Wayne Otto. In 1975, she and Dr. Otto published a book titled "Speedway, the Action Way to Read." Dr. Otto died in 2017.
Brad Oltrogge is president of Learning Multi-Systems, the software publisher that was contracted by Atari to turn Kamm and Otto's speed reading material into a product for the Atari home computer.
This interview took place on April 16, 2020.
Atari Speed Reading Workbook
Atari Speed Reading at AtariWiki
Dr. Otto obituary
Speedway: The action way to speed read
The Study Skills Component of the Wisconsin Design
Learning Multi-Systems
Further episodes of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast
Further podcasts by Randy Kindig, Kay Savetz, Brad Arnold
Website of Randy Kindig, Kay Savetz, Brad Arnold