Shiraz Shivji (born 1947 in what is now Tanzania) was the primary designer of the Atari ST computer for Atari Corporation, which was developed in five months and released in 1985, and one of the engineers who developed the Commodore 64.
Shiraz Shivji, born 1947 in what is now Tanzania, was of Indian Ismaili heritage.
[5] He was sued by Commodore in mid-July 1984 for disclosing confidential research information connected to this project and disk drive design plans as he was beginning to transfer to Atari Corporation with Jack Tramiel.
[6] When Jack Tramiel took over Atari in 1984, with a number of Commodore engineers, the company was in bad shape, and Shivji's proposed cheap, powerful home computer, codenamed 'Rock Bottom Price,' was seen as a solution to financial woes.
[12] Kamran Elahian recruited Shivji for his 1989[13] startup company, Momenta.