Origin of company names Apple & Atari - verify?

From: Charles P. Hobbs <transit_at_primenet.com>
Date: Fri May 9 20:17:48 1997

On Fri, 9 May 1997, Sam Ismail wrote:

> On Fri, 9 May 1997, William Donzelli wrote:
>
> > > Atari is in fact a Japanese word. I forget what it means, but it's the
> > > equivalent of "checkmate" in the game of Go. Founder of Atari allegedly
> > > really liked Japanese culture and Go.
> >
> > I think this is true, as the founder's second company was also named
> > after a Go term. I forget what it is.
>
> I think the rough translation is "Go out of business (again)".

The second company's name was "Sente", and it made a couple of
unnoteworthy video games, if I recall correctly. . .
Received on Fri May 09 1997 - 20:17:48 BST