Alan Kay, a scientist from Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) where the first mouse was invented and the first graphics operating system was designed (The Xerox STAR 8010 was where Steve Jobs got the idea for the Macintosh and the Macintosh is where Bill Gates got the idea for Windows) came to Atari as Atari's cheif scientist to explore the idea's of what people would be doing with video games and computers in not 2 or 3 years but in 7 to 10 years.    Many projects were started and many products were created, non were used for actually consumer products but more for research.   A high end chipset called "Silver & Gold" was created, one chip in particular was called MARIA/AMY, when Atari, Inc was sold the Tramiels attempted to get the AMY music chip to work in an Atari 65XE.   The chip was said to have unbelievable sound, octaves, and voices.   One demo has it playing an opera singer.   Without Atari's R&D personnel to deceipher its true workings the Tramiels were never able to get AMY working and the 65XE-M was never brought to market.    Below is an item from the Atari Los Angeles (LA) Lab from Alan Kay.    We hope as time goes by to show other items from the LA lab.