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Commodore founder Jack Tramiel dies at 83
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article published on 10 April, 2012
Jack Tramiel, founder of the company behind the Commodore 64, died on Sunday. He was 83 years old.
Tramiel founded Commodore as a typewriter repair business. Eventually the company began selling their own typewriters and later branched out into adding machines and then calculators. As plummeting pocket calculator prices in the 1970s put pressure on companies like Commodore who had to ... [ read the full article ]
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xnonsuchx
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10. April 2012 @ 02:58 |
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Too bad he let his incompetent sons run (ruin?) a lot of his business. I actually thought he was older.
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10. April 2012 @ 03:51 |
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In my opinion, Jack Tramiel and his companies changed the world back in 1980s and in the 1990s much, much more than what Bill Gates and/or Steve Jobs did. Apples and PCs weren't something that Joe Average would have used in the days when the computer revolution was going on. PCs and Macs were typically seen in offices -- if you saw one in someone's home, you knew that it was paid by the dad's / mom's employer or that your friend's parents were filthy rich. No, kids of our era had C=64s in the early 1980s, Amigas and Atari STs in the late 1980s/early 1990s. PCs overtook Amigas & Ataris -- at least here in the Nordics -- only after Windows 3.1 era.
Without paving the way back in the 1980s to the mindset that computers are part of our daily lives, world would have been very much different than what it is today.
Even though Amiga wasn't Tramiel's baby -- he left the company before that era to run Atari -- he built Commodore as a company, that set the foundation to that era too.
RIP
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SomeBozo
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10. April 2012 @ 04:28 |
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Ahhhhh, the good old days of Commodore & Atari that was an exciting time to be in computers. Strange i remember heading to breakfast with a friend and the hot news back then was getting 1MB of memory in single chip. There was something about the times back then which Jack Tramiel had huge effects on the computer world.
Pioneers like him will be missed and best wishes to his family an friends.
RIP Jack Tramiel you really did help make personal computers what they are today.
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SomeBozo
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10. April 2012 @ 04:33 |
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Originally posted by dRD:
In my opinion, Jack Tramiel and his companies changed the world back in 1980s and in the 1990s much, much more than what Bill Gates and/or Steve Jobs did. Apples and PCs weren't something that Joe Average would have used in the days when the computer revolution was going on. PCs and Macs were typically seen in offices -- if you saw one in someone's home, you knew that it was paid by the dad's / mom's employer or that your friend's parents were filthy rich. No, kids of our era had C=64s in the early 1980s, Amigas and Atari STs in the late 1980s/early 1990s. PCs overtook Amigas & Ataris -- at least here in the Nordics -- only after Windows 3.1 era.
Without paving the way back in the 1980s to the mindset that computers are part of our daily lives, world would have been very much different than what it is today.
Even though Amiga wasn't Tramiel's baby -- he left the company before that era to run Atari -- he built Commodore as a company, that set the foundation to that era too.
RIP
Can't agree more Commodore and Atari had a huge effects on PC before the IBM PC was popular and/or main stream. My first programs,i wrote on an Atari 800, but there was a decent competition between Commodore and Atari that helped spur on the entire market. Both the Commodore and Atari computers helped inspire many to get into computers. I'd agree they has more effect than the Ineffective But Marketable PC did....
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JST1946
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10. April 2012 @ 07:11 |
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Yes they were a lot of fun. I still have an Atari 520ST. There is a place in California that sells them and repair parts.They used to have a factory here where I live also that manufactured the Atari.
http://www.best-electronics-ca.com/text.htm
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10. April 2012 @ 08:28 |
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The Commodore 64 was my first computer. Thank you, Mr. Tramiel for your great contributions. R.I.P.
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Mysttic
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10. April 2012 @ 08:44 |
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I still got all his consoles that was apart of his history locked away with the rest of my collection. RIP
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IguanaC64
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10. April 2012 @ 10:54 |
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Good times with my C64...RIP, man. C64 was a big part of my childhood.
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dodger5
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10. April 2012 @ 17:50 |
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commodore vic20 was my first, a whopping 20k, with that big ass cassette drive. I wholeheartedly agree with somebozo, to have grown up during the evolution of the computer is pretty freaking awesome.
Keep your head up, keep alert, and don't let them take you by suprise.
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TrinUK
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11. April 2012 @ 04:25 |
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Originally posted by dRD:
In my opinion, Jack Tramiel and his companies changed the world back in 1980s and in the 1990s much, much more than what Bill Gates and/or Steve Jobs did. Apples and PCs weren't something that Joe Average would have used in the days when the computer revolution was going on. PCs and Macs were typically seen in offices -- if you saw one in someone's home, you knew that it was paid by the dad's / mom's employer or that your friend's parents were filthy rich. No, kids of our era had C=64s in the early 1980s, Amigas and Atari STs in the late 1980s/early 1990s. PCs overtook Amigas & Ataris -- at least here in the Nordics -- only after Windows 3.1 era.
Without paving the way back in the 1980s to the mindset that computers are part of our daily lives, world would have been very much different than what it is today.
Even though Amiga wasn't Tramiel's baby -- he left the company before that era to run Atari -- he built Commodore as a company, that set the foundation to that era too.
RIP
Excellent comment - Commodore and Atari really changed the future of gaming and music production on computers too. Such a shame about the company but hey, I've still got my C64 boxed up :)
Trin - Making Digital Waves
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ronatola
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13. April 2012 @ 09:04 |
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LOAD "goodbye_jack",8,1
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BackDoor
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13. April 2012 @ 09:57 |
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craig1427
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13. April 2012 @ 10:01 |
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Was my first computer also. I still miss the games.
ronatola: very well put
R.I.P. Jack
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13. April 2012 @ 12:52 |
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R.I.P. Jack. The commodore 64 is probably the core of all my enthusiasm. My family had one when I was merely 8 - 10 yrs old(late eighties). I miss the games(though I'm aware of ways of acquiring them).
Such a shame I moved away from computers in my teens. Had I not, I would likely be a programmer today :( But I'm making up for lost time!
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13. April 2012 @ 14:22 |
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Originally posted by dRD:
In my opinion, Jack Tramiel and his companies changed the world back in 1980s and in the 1990s much, much more than what Bill Gates and/or Steve Jobs did. Apples and PCs weren't something that Joe Average would have used in the days when the computer revolution was going on. PCs and Macs were typically seen in offices -- if you saw one in someone's home, you knew that it was paid by the dad's / mom's employer or that your friend's parents were filthy rich. No, kids of our era had C=64s in the early 1980s, Amigas and Atari STs in the late 1980s/early 1990s. PCs overtook Amigas & Ataris -- at least here in the Nordics -- only after Windows 3.1 era.
Without paving the way back in the 1980s to the mindset that computers are part of our daily lives, world would have been very much different than what it is today.
Even though Amiga wasn't Tramiel's baby -- he left the company before that era to run Atari -- he built Commodore as a company, that set the foundation to that era too.
RIP
Ditto!
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Nosredneh
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13. April 2012 @ 17:24 |
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I still wish that Commodore computers were around. I have a few old models around but not in working order. I still have vital information I need that is on file on the flabby disks. Anyway, so long Jack. Anybody waht to buy so old Computes Gazette Mags?
PHH
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JST1946
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13. April 2012 @ 17:47 |
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20 Year U.S.Army Veteran.Vietnam 1969-1972 101st Abn.Div.
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getanacct
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13. April 2012 @ 22:22 |
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RIP to an great innovator.
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jalchin
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15. April 2012 @ 06:37 |
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I still have my pocket Commodore calculator I got back in the 70's and it STILL works! The first computer I went on the Internet (BBS) with was a Vic-20. RIP Jack.
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