 JC: Joe Connor
My interest in computers dates back to the early
eighties when I was heavily into programming Vic 20s,
Commodore Pets, Tangerines etc. but in the mid eighties I
got bored with computers - which seemed to please my wife
for some reason...
Unfortunately (for her) I spotted an Atari ST in
Germany in 1987 and my enthusiasm was rekindled - I
became a born again computer evangelist, the worst kind!
By happy co-incidence some of the best Atari software
was being produced in Germany and my schoolboy German
came in useful hacking programs into English.
Once I got online people started asked for copies.
Rather than release hacked software I got in contact with
the authors and arranged permission to release them and
that's how InterActive got started.
On several occasions I'd started translating something
only to discover another translator was already working
on the same project so we formed TransAction to maximise
our resources and avoid duplicated effort and this is
more important than ever before. By profession I'm a
product designer, a member of the Chartered Society of
Designers (MCSD) but these days I'm a house husband.
Since 1989 I've contributed hundreds of articles to ST
World, Atari ST Review, Atari World, ST Applications,
AtariPhile and during the summer of 1996, as part of the
Atari Computing Group (ACG), a group of us launched Atari
Computing and I'm currently the editor.
Likes: Technology, sci-fi, armchair football/grand
prix, good beer (German Weissen, Czech pils, English
bitter...)
Dislikes: Broken promises, decisions by
commitee, empty beer bottles, power cuts and holidays in
the sun...
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