[game_preservation] Computer Legend and Gaming Pioneer Jack Tramiel Dies at Age 83

[Billy Cain]

Devin,

I also share your balanced opinion on Mr. Tramiel. He was allegedly
responsible for destroying the Atari 2600 market (printing more ET carts
than there were 2600s because the software would move more hardware, for
example). I would love to hear a counterpoint to that, because I have
always heard it said that this led to the desctuction of the home videogame
market (circa 1984). Since I lived through that at just the right time (I
was 17 in '84), it broke my heart to see that.

But, his overall efforts should not be discounted by that decision that may
have not even been his. It could have been done by the "machine" of the
company.

Billy Cain
Geek / Catalyst

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On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>wrote:


>  I wasn't going to write a full obituary (I don't know enough about the

> man myself, I seem to have more UK knowledge now :) ), probably find one

> someone else has written and ask to borrow it or just link to it. I don't

> know anyone myself who'd be able to write one up.

>

> Andrew

>

>

> On 10/04/2012 14:22, Devin Monnens wrote:

>

> No, why don't you do this one, Andrew. I honestly don't know enough on him

> to write something decent, and I am afraid my views of him are too colored

> by what I've read in the history books. If somebody can give a balanced

> memorial, that's what's needed.

>

> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>wrote:

>

>> An interesting company, one I need to read more up on. Very significant

>> in the USA, and reasonably significant over here (although we have several

>> PET's we have no working ones annoyingly!), so I don't know the whole story.

>>

>> I will sort out an obituary page next week, unless Devin beats me to it

>> or anyone else wants to write something up :)

>>

>> Andrew

>>

>>

>> On 09/04/2012 20:53, Jim Leonard wrote:

>>

>>> On 4/9/2012 2:41 PM, Martin Goldberg wrote:

>>>

>>>> I'm sorry we lost that chance, but more importantly I'm sorry for the

>>>> loss of an industry icon, holocaust survivor, father, and grandfather.

>>>>

>>>

>>> This is a great loss.  While his business practices were not universally

>>> appreciated, his products were loved by tens if not hundreds of millions of

>>> people, and were significant contributions to our related fields.

>>>

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