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

[Alex Handy]

Edits in-coming. Guess I never went back and edited because the site
it was hosted on was essentially dead the day after this ran.

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Martin Goldberg <wgungfu at gmail.com> wrote:

> Alex - great article, just two quick Atari related corrections:

>

> 1) Al Alcorn is not a co-founder of Atari, that would be Nolan

> Bushnell and Ted Dabney. Al was one of the first employees.

>

> 2) Jack did not take over the company, he took over the brand. The

> company (Atari Inc.) collapsed, and Jack purchased a division from it

> (Consumer Division) which he then folded in to his own company TTL.

> His company was then renamed Atari Corporation.

>

> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Alex Handy <alex at themade.org> wrote:

>> I wrote this piece for GameTap years ago at the 25th anniversary party

>> for the C64 in 2007. Lots of good info straight from Jack's mouth:

>>

>> http://www.sdtimes.com/blog/post/2012/04/09/Jack-Tramiel-Commodore-founder-passes-at-83.aspx

>>

>> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Martin Goldberg <wgungfu at gmail.com> wrote:

>>> Andrew and Devin, I'd be happy to help out if you want. I helped with

>>> the Forbes piece, am the one who broke the story to the media for the

>>> family in the first place (who I've also been in contact with), and am

>>> helping several other news outlets with their coverage (including the

>>> Daily Telegraph from your next of the woods). Also working on a

>>> followup "Legacy of Jack Tramiel" piece for Forbes with Brian Bagnall

>>> (author of the Commodore: On the Edge book).

>>>

>>> As I mentioned previously, we were set to interview Jack directly for

>>> the book (I've been "online" friends with his son Leonard for 11 years

>>> now) next week when this suddenly happened this past weekend.

>>> Tremendous loss, but at least he was surrounded by the family when it

>>> happened.

>>>

>>>

>>> 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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>>>>

>>>>

>>>>

>>>> --

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>>>> www.deserthat.com

>>>>

>>>> The sleep of Reason produces monsters.

>>>>

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