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Bill Atkinson, an Uncommon card
William Dana Atkinson was an American computer engineer, computer programmer and photographer.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 58
- DEF
- 38
- Power
- 96
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 37,000
Power 96 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 35 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Atkinson worked at Apple Computer from 1978 to 1990.
- Some of Atkinson's noteworthy contributions to the field of computing include Macintosh QuickDraw and Lisa LisaGraf, regions, marching ants, the menu bar, the selection lasso, MacPaint, HyperCard, Atkinson dithering, and the PhotoCard application program.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Bill Atkinson article was read about 37,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 58 and blocks with 38: each hit it takes is cut by 15 %.
How to get Bill Atkinson
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Bill Atkinson (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Jay Cross from Berkeley, California, US, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.