Ted Dabney is the often uncredited co-founder of Syzygy and Atari. While working at Ampex Ted met Nolan Bushnell and the two jointly created Syzygy with their first product being Computer Space which was manufactured and sold by Nutting Associates. Following Computer Space Ted Dabney's video circuit that was created for Computer Space was used by Al Alcorn to create Pong with assistance from Ted and Nolan.