Farewell, Jack Tramiel

Many Papers had it today. Jack Tramiel died at age 83. We always had him in our hero list for the fact that he was one of the few people in the industry who were really willing and able to make computing and personal devices for it dirt cheap and for all. Not only in North America, but also, and more importantly so for us, in good ole Europe.

2 Less Sung Big Heroes of the PC Revolution

And while Mr. Jobs was not one of them, the VC-20 and C-64s were the Apple IIs we could afford then here in babana land. Thank you Jack! And for the 64k of RAM 'n' sprites 'n' 2 busses too.

 
Tramiel Operating System!

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Yeah right
let us not forget the Ataris as affordable Mac impersonators.

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is definitely recommended. thank you p3k and thank you chl, old friends and brothers in ...

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People forget that in the early 1980s the C64 outsold the Apple ][, IBM PC, and the Atari 400/800 combined.

And don’t forget it was Jack who saw the value in Amiga, which in many ways set performance targets that took Apple years to beat.


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last updated: 25.01.13 07:10
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