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

[Devin Monnens]

Do you have Brian's contact info? He's just got Twitter from what I could
find.


On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Billy Cain <billyjoecain at gmail.com> wrote:


> That is some awesome legendary stuff. I am SO glad you shared that!

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> Billy Cain

> Geek / Catalyst

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> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Martin Goldberg <wgungfu at gmail.com>wrote:

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>> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Devin Monnens <dmonnens at gmail.com>

>> wrote:

>> > Glad to hear your experiences, Martin! I second that hope that you

>> brought a

>> > voice or video recorder along :) There's no excuse not to have one since

>> > everyone now has their smartypants phones ;-)

>> >

>>

>> Yes, I had my recorder going the entire time and was taking pictures

>> with my current gen iPad.

>>

>> If anyone is using an android phone (mine's the Motorola Electrify) I

>> really have to give strong recommendations for the app PCM Recorder.

>> Records uncompressed 48,000 hz PCM audio, and combined with the

>> natural noise reduction technology in the phone it worked like a

>> dream. Especially in some of the noisy locations we were in. Crystal

>> clear voices. Used Dropbox to back up each day's files.

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>> > Howard Scott Warshaw is a legend, and he's got a wonderful personality

>> from

>> > the videos I've seen. He was the only guy with the balls - and skills -

>> to

>> > say he could do ET.

>>

>> Well, he was asked to do ET specifically by Spielberg because he had

>> previously done Raiders. Funny story one of the guys recounted was

>> that on the day he interviewed at the location, Howard was coming

>> around the corner of some cubiles in a Fedora and cracking a bullwhip.

>> The interviewee was like "What kind of a place is this?" Howard had

>> been getting in character to code Raiders. Even more hilarious? Howard

>> mentioned he was almost not hired at Atari because he was considered

>> too straight laced.

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>> > In an interview, he said if the pile of ET cartridges

>> > buried in the desert was real, he would have known about it and had his

>> > photograph taken standing on the pile before they bulldozed it under!

>>

>> The burial in Alamogordo, NM is actualy a fact. What's not a fact is

>> that it was a pile of E.T. cartridges. Really, it was one of several

>> dumps in different time periods across the US. Atari even used to take

>> overstock of products such as ICs and steamroll them to poor concrete

>> over for the foundation of several warehouses. Alamogordo was the

>> result of the shutting down of Atari's Texas manufacturing plant, and

>> consisted of computer and console hardware, and games (many different

>> titles). Occuring over several days (yes, it was covered daily in the

>> local newspaper) and from a good number of semis full of product, when

>> kids started scavenging working game cartridges they decided to

>> steamroll the landfill, dump concrete over it, and then refill it.

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>> --

>> Marty

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