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| | Jack Tramiel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Tramiel's own personal fortune was enough that he was able to buy the home division of video game company Atari. | | | Tramiel attempted to turn Atari into the 'new Commodore', and all but ignored the video game market that would soon rebound with Nintendo's entry into the U.S. field. | | | (Tramiel did not acquire the arcade game division, which became known as Atari Games). |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Tramiel
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| | Atari 7800.com - The ATARI 7800 Museum |
| | Shortly after the 7800 was released, Jack Tramiel and family took Atari off of Warner's hands, and soon all hell was to break loose. | | | However after Jack Tramiel took over control of Atari in 1984, he doomed this once promising system by cutting off further development of accessories and refusing to pay royalties for new games. | | | In 1987, Atari under the Tramiel dictatorship continued their tradition of including folded up poster-sized catalogues with some systems and game cartridges. |
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http://www.atari7800.com/7800/museum.htm
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| | jack: Definition, Synonyms and Much More From Answers.com |
| | In the screw jack the load is moved or lifted by the turning of a screw; the pitch of the screw threads is arranged so that friction is sufficient to hold the load in place when the torque applied to the screw is released. | | | Meaning #5: game equipment consisting of one of several small objects picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks | | | To hunt or fish for with a jacklight: hunters illegally jacking deer. |
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| | The Commodore 64 |
| | Tramiel knew that the way to beat the Japanese at their own game was to produce a product at a price they could not compete with. | | | Tramiel's strategy was to introduce a new product at the lowest price possible right from the start. | | | When Jack realized that he had a real winner, he doubled the price and introduced the PET into the |
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| | The Atari 800 |
| | To give Jack time to re-organize Atari, payments on the interest were not due to start until 1985. | | | All that Jack Tramiel had to do was to make Atari into a profitable business once again. | | | Jack charged that Commodore snatched Amiga from Atari by offering a better deal. |
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http://www.pc-history.org/atari.htm
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| | Jack Tramiel: A Candid Discussion |
| | Short and rotund, possessed of boundless energy and confidence, Tramiel is the swizzle stick of the Atari operation. | | | Within a year, he had taken over the reins of a former competitor, Atari, and was going mano a mano with Commodore. | | | People should not be sitting around getting pay they don't deserve. |
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http://www.atarimagazines.com/startv1n3/JackTramiel.html
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| | AtariAge Forums -> Jack Tramiel |
| | Glenn: The Tramiels always bothered me. On the one hand they had great ideas; even during their reign, originality and innovation were still hallmark, as it had always been with Atari. | | | Jack basically remained behind the scenes, having little to do with the day to day operation of Atari. | | | Where Kassar's autocratic rule stifled and practically suffocated Atari to death internally, the Tramiels essentially alienated their dealer networks, installed user base, and the press by essentially making bad decisions. |
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http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=4959
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| | When Jack returned and asked the group again, what did they think about the idea of a low cost color computer?, a huge debate broke out with everyone not only talking to the group, but also debating among each other in small groups. | | | In a past life Tramiel may have been Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord from the Sengoku Period. | | | The ultimate goal of Nobunaga was the reunification of Japan, known as tenka-fubu ("under a single sword"). |
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http://www.raymondcomputer.com/amhistory/Commodore_History.txt
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| | FYYFF: Imperial Storm Troopers |
| | Jeez, Tramiel is going to absolutely savage this place... | | | In the end, I don't think that Jack really got it, except he understood I wasn't calling him a Nazi. | | | In July of 1984, Jack Tramiel bought Atari. |
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| | The Pre-C64 History of Jack Tramiel and Commodore Computer |
| | Tramiel then went on to buy Atari's home division from Warner Communications but that is a completely different story and well beyond the scope of this essay. | | | Tramiel had been threatening to leave the company on numerous occasions before when things weren't going his way. | | | The information I have found was generally quite vague, but this move seems quite typical of Tramiel. |
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http://www.skillreactor.org/tutortxt/jtramiel
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| | Retrogaming Roundtable :: View topic - Your position on former Atari owner Jack Tramiel??? |
| | This was his biggest mistake not the fact that he chose not to participate in console gaming. | | | Sega realized that they needed to go in a different direction and focus on developing and publishing games instead of hardware. | | | He wanted Atari to be his tool of revenge and to capture more market share than commodore/amiga. |
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http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=53740&sid=ecad4abc43bdb58a6b8d740eab1b40b2
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| | Jack Tramiel - All About All findings |
| | In July 1984, Warner sold the home computing and game console divisions of Atari to Jack Tramiel, the recently ousted founder of Atari competitor Commodore International, under the name Atari Corp. for $240 million in stocks under the new company. | | | One month later, Warner Communications sold Atari to Jack Tramiel, who did not want to build a video game console. | | | Atari could no longer afford the Famicom deal, and eventually Nintendo would be forced to go it alone. |
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http://www.allaboutall.info/search/Jack%20Tramiel
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| | AtariAge Forums -> Anybody actually *LIKE* Jack Tramiel ? |
| | So if any of you see the good in the Tramiels, or are willing to go on record to defend their business practices at Atari, please step forward and email me directly at AtariSuperhero@aol.com. | | | Jack Tramiel and I are buddies, we go and laugh at Kassar every once | | | Jack Tramiel was not a very liked person for a reason. |
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http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=10506
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| | Amiga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | When they took over Atari Consumer and formed Atari Corp., all projects were put on hold until they could evaluate them. | | | Work was started but Atari ran in to the well known financial troubles and Warner wound up breaking up and selling off the parts of Atari Inc. | | | So he formed Tramiel Technology, Ltd. (TTL) with some former Commodore employees and designed what would become known as the ST series of computers. |
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| | The Atari Times |
| | Also, we are not in a board of directors meeting, so just call me Jack. | | | CFG: I have read other interviews with you and I am hopefully not going to repeat the same questions asked of you years ago. | | | For those of you who are not familiar with Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore Computers and former CEO of Atari, and his contribution towards the computer industry will need to do some reading. |
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http://www.ataritimes.com/features/interviews/jtramiel_mock.html
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| | Developing a Concentration Camp Mentality in Sales - SalesLinks Bulletin from Mentor Associates Sales Training |
| | I don't know what ever happened to Jack Tramiel after Atari went down, but wherever he is, I'm sure he's still winning. | | | He was a big, ebullient, tough, brawling businessman who had no fear and only one item on his agenda: winning the game. | | | Jack was the rough and tumble CEO of two of the computer industry's earliest pioneer companies back in the late 70's and early to mid 80's: Commodore Computer and Atari Corporation. |
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| | Mailgate: comp.sys.cbm: Jack Tramiel comes back to Lodz, Poland |
| | BBC article about the event, not related to Tramiel: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3606390.stm Atari guy's relation (in Polish), perhaps photos or link to them will be posted there: http://atariarea.histeria.pl/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2097 ytm [1] actually, Tramiel's son recognized Atari logo on the T-shirt and started talk -- Najlepsza sygnatura to brak sygnatury. | | | Tramiel was quite happy to see that there are still people interested in his computers but it seems that it just brought him back memoirs of good, old times. | | | Jack Tramiel and his family were among those who participated yesterday in Lodz ghetto rememberance ceremonies. |
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http://mailgate.supereva.com/comp/comp.sys.cbm/msg48331.html
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| | VIC-20 History |
| | In one shoot, I actually went to Bloomingdales and tried on cloths for the shoot. | | | This was far less than the 20-25% that owned video game machines during the peak of the home video game craze. | | | The VIC-20 project moved forward anyway, with the goal of breaking a specified price point. |
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| | Commodore.ca Chronology of Commodore Computer History, Jack Tramiel |
| | At Fort Dix Jack showed a talent for unjamming typewriters. | | | [July] Jack Tramiel, former president of Commodore International, buys a controlling interest in the Atari home computer and video game divisions from Warner Communications, for US$240 million in long-term notes. | | | Chuck peddle convinces Jack Tramiel that the next market is with computers and jack says to build one. |
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| | AMIGA HISTORY |
| | Some say he was an innovator, though that cudo must go to the (then) dedicated Amiga engineers and visionaries of that time | | | It is interesting to note, that Jack's design team at Atari designed the chips and had them custom made by " C S G " (Commodore Semiconductor Group) for his Atari Computers. | | | So, as the story goes, Jack started his life in a garage with his Type writers, with sales and service as the corner stone, his small business grew to be a very successfully one from such humble beginnings. |
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| | NORD/LB: Atari Corporation Non Public Stock to Jack Tramiel. 1987. |
| | Atari Corporation was a pioneer of video game industry having released the first mass-marketing video game PONG (the famous tennis video game) in 1971. | | | Tramiel's aggressive management style hasn't helped to leverage a number of viable Atari technical designs, giving the way to IBM computers. | | | This certificate was for unregistered stock for 100,000 shares made out to Jack Tramiel, the founder of Commodore computers who take over the Atari business after Ray Kassar's and James Morgan's ruinous management in 1984. |
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http://www.nordlb.lv/en/certificates/atari
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| | Jack Tramiel Declares War! |
| | To Tramiel it's an undeniable fact that the best computer value will be the bestseller. | | | Tramiel forecasts that some 50 million computers will be sold worldwide in 1987-and more than half of these computers will cost less than $200. | | | For example, Atari Corp. President Sam Tramiel confirmed that their new 16-bit and 32-bit computers will use the Macintosh-like icons of the GEM operating environment from Digital Research, developers of CP/M. The younger Tramiel said that GEM would be the user-friendly "front end" to a new Atari proprietary operating system for the advanced machines. |
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| | commodore.ca History You Don't Know Jack Tramiel 1989 Interview |
| | Jack Tramiel: From the back of a Opal Commodore of a car. | | | Presenter: I don't know if you like computers or if you use computers but computers are so much a part of life that it's h | | | We're back in 1955, let's go a little bit further back, life started for you in Poland, is that right? |
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| | Graham Stewart Tech History Atari - The Tramiel Years |
| | Jack Tramiel assumed control of Atari on 2 July 1984. | | | At CeBIT in 1992, Jack Tramiel revealed a prototype of Atari's new Falcon030 computer. | | | And so, in 1985, Jack Tramiel of Atari decided that a port of GEM would run on his TOS (The Operating System). |
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| | Fortune: Jack Tramiel is back on the warpath.@ HighBeam Research |
| | Nor did many buy Tramiel's line that Atari will become a booming billion-dollar business this year. | | | ALMOST NO ONE in the computer industry believed the mercurial Jack Tramiel when he proclaimed in January that Atari, the wrecked videogame and computer maker he acquired from Warner Communications last July, will build five million computers in 1985. | | | Fortune: Jack Tramiel is back on the warpath.@ HighBeam Research |
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| | Commodore Company History And C64 Technical Description |
| | To save his company, Jack Tramiel began hunting for a new source of funds. | | | Under Jack Tramiel's deliberate guidance, Commodore Business Machines grew into a $1B company, growing seven-fold from 1981 to 1984. It was one of the largest suppliers of home computers in the world. | | | At the time of Tramiel's departure, the home computer market was failing, causing Mattel and Coleco to leave the business. Another company that decided to leave the industry was Warner Communications, which sold Atari to the newly-unemployed Tramiel for a pittance. Shortly thereafter, a stream of Commodore executives followed him. |
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| | Jack Tramiel - Encyclopedia Dramatica |
| | Jack Tramiel is the old guy who founded Commodore, released the Amiga to the masses, and then destroyed Atari. | | | The oldest man to ever use a computer | | | This page was last modified 01:05, 21 Nov 2005. |
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| | Commodore.ca Gallery Videos C64, 128, Amiga, Jack Tramiel, IBM & More |
| | Jack Tramiel is King of Low Cost Computers | | | Commodore Computer Hardware: Rare, Hard to Find, Prototype, or Just Bizzare Hardware | | | C64, 128, Amiga, Jack Tramiel, IBM and More |
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| | Read the unknown story of Commodore |
| | I can remember that and I thank him for it." - Chuck Peddle on Jack Tramiel | | | The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore tells the story of Commodore through first-hand accounts by former Commodore engineers and managers. | | | “I’m not sure that he liked taking instructions very well." - Leonard Tramiel on Chuck Peddle |
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| | Commodore 64 - definition of Commodore 64 in Encyclopedia |
| | Announced by Commodore Business Machines (founded and owned by Jack Tramiel) in January 1982 and released in September of that year at a price of US$595, it offered unprecedented value (sound and graphics performance) for the money. | | | Its very aggressive pricing in comparison to competitors quickly started a price war. |
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| | Petit questionnaire délirant et instructif sur la vie de Jack Tramiel, fondateur de Commodore et patron pour un temps d'Atari Corp. Ce logiciel est la transcription exacte d'un article paru dans un hors série de TILT 1988 (Match ST/Amiga). | | | Here you can download the colorized ressource, made by Mathieu DEMANGE. | | | Intégré comprenant un éditeur de texte, un viewer et un shell pour le raytracer Persistence Of Vision. |
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