DSM
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Co-founder of Amiga Corporation
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Male
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Birth:
15 April 1943(Lexington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
Death:
2 November 2007(San Jose, Santa Clara County, California, U.S.A.)
The details
Biography
David Shannon Morse (April 15, 1943 – November 2, 2007) was the cofounder of Amiga. In 1982, he left Tonka Toys (where he was Vice-President of Marketing) and became the Chief Executive Officer at Hi Toro, Inc., which he co-founded and which later that year morphed into Amiga, Inc. which he led through the development of the Lorraine Project (a codename inspired by David's wife Lorraine), ultimately, the Amiga 1000 computer. In the 1980s he was a software manager at Epyx, a video game developer and publisher.