Shiraz Shivji
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Tanzanian computer designer
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- Bachelors Computer Science Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Shiraz Shivji was the primary designer of the 1985 Atari ST computer, and one of the engineers of the Commodore 64. Biography Shiraz Shivji, born 1947 in what is now Tanzania, was of Indian Ismaili heritage. He was interested in electronics from an early age in what is now Tanzania. He was educated in the United Kingdom, where he obtained a first-class honours degree at the University of Southampton. He then moved to the United States, where he obtained a master's degree in electrical engineering at Stanford University during 1969–1973.
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