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Title: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore book released
Post by: odin on September 30, 2005, 12:48:09 PM

'The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore' tells the story of Commodore through first-hand accounts by the actual Commodore engineers and managers who made the company.

The 600 plus pages of tangible Commodore history have been available since september 18th.

More info here (http://www.commodorebook.com/index.php).

Title: Re: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore book released
Post by: yogisumo on September 30, 2005, 01:04:26 PM

Book is worth the money.  An informative read about C= history...

Title: Re: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore book released
Post by: odin on September 30, 2005, 01:20:44 PM

I'd think so. It's high on my 'to buy' list, but I have to buy 100EUR worth of books for a minor I'm doing...so first things first :/.

Title: Re: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore book released
Post by: TheMagicM on September 30, 2005, 01:43:21 PM

weird...

"He didn't listen real well." - Commodore Engineer Al Charpentier on Jack Tramiel


“I really liked Jack Tramiel” - Al Charpentier

Title: Re: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore book released
Post by: The_Power_of_the_Ginger on September 30, 2005, 05:26:02 PM

Maybe Jack Tramiel was a lovable cuddly fellow who was hard of hearing? I know I don't listen real well either, but then I've got the attention span of a...ooh, pie!

Title: Re: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore book released
Post by: TheMagicM on September 30, 2005, 05:46:58 PM

I'll wait for the movie.. lol

Title: Re: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore book released
Post by: odin on September 30, 2005, 08:11:59 PM

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I'll wait for the movie.. lol

I thought there already was one (http://www.frogpondmedia.com/dbv/)?

:-P
(About the fall at least..).

Title: Re: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore book released
Post by: Matt_H on September 30, 2005, 10:32:46 PM

It's on my "to get" list. I'm really looking forward to it.

Title: Re: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore book released
Post by: HardStep on September 30, 2005, 10:55:49 PM

Got mine yesterday, definitely worth the money.

Title: Re: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore book released
Post by: quenthal on September 30, 2005, 11:29:29 PM

Excellent book!

Title: Re: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore book released
Post by: Darth_X on October 03, 2005, 11:33:39 PM

Check out this book as well
home computer wars  (http://www.jbrain.com/pub/cbm/books/hcw/)

Michael S. Tomczyk

An Insider's Account
of Commodore and Jack Tramiel