Shiraz Shivji
Shiraz Shivji (* 1947 in Tanzania ) was the main developer of the Atari ST computer and one of the developers of the Commodore 64 .
biography
Shiraz Shivji studied electrical engineering at Stanford University from 1969 to 1973 .
Work at Atari
When Jack Tramiel and a number of former Commodore developers took over Atari Corporation in 1984 , the company was in poor shape. Shiraz Shivji became Atari's Vice President for Development and Research when he and a team of six engineers developed the Atari ST .
The work was completed in an astonishingly short time of just five months (from July to December 1984). The presentation of the prototype at the CES in January 1985 was a considerable success and thus secured Atari's future for the time being.
Shivji designed the Atari ST as the first in a range of models. Later he led the development of the Atari TT until the end of his work at Atari.
Work at Momenta
After leaving Atari in 1991, he developed the Momenta Pen Computer. This was one of the first tablet computers with hardware that was powerful for the time. However, he suffered from a lack of suitable software for his DOS-based GUI.