Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!!

[RobertB]

Gigantic surprise!  Former CEO of Commodore Business
Machines, Jack Tramiel, will be making a rare public appearance!
Yesterday I received a message on the answering machine from
Karen Tucker, CMO/VP of Public Programs for the Computer
History Museum in Mountain View (San Jose area), California.


Here is part of what she said:


... I thought you might be happy to know that the museum is
going to have a celebration of the impact of the Commodore 64
on December 10.  It's kind of a 25th anniversary celebration,
and Jack Tramiel will speak as well as Steve Wozniak and
William C. Lowe, the father of the IBM PC, and Adam Chulaniak
(sp?) who was the Amiga guy at Commodore, and we're still
settling on the moderator.  But I thought that if you are still
part of the Fresno Commodore User Group... that you guys
might want to make the trip down to Mountain View for this
event on December 10.


All day today I've been playing phone tag with Karen in
order to get more details and received another message
saying that the exact title of that night's program is "The
Impact of the Commodore 64: A 25-Year Celebration".  More
details to come when I find out more.

The Computer History Museum is located at 1401 N.
Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View, California 94043.  The
website is  http://www.computerhistory.org

I am so there for this event!
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/

[little]

Maybe someone can tell him about the minimig so he puts some dollars into mass producing it. It would be the ultimate irony, two decades later the man that could not get ahold of the amiga (and had to produce the atari st instead) gets to sell them. :crazy:

[XDelusion]

Are we allowed to bring tomatoes?

[redrumloa]

Are we allowed to bring tomatoes

Tramiel didn't ruin Commodore. He was the strength of C= until he left for Atari.

[leirbag28]

@Robert

All I know is that you had better Record this with some kind of High Definition Video Camera...........rent it! do whatever you have to do to get a good quality cam.  minimum 3CCD.

Try online or craigslist or whatever to see if you can borrow one.............but please record this...................heck.....bring a friend with another camera in his hand to capture another angle.

if possible get the museum to let you set up mics for good recording.

Please!  This is a rare moment!

[Chain]

i hope someone will record it :-o

[AMIBY]

Anyone want to pay a plane ticket from Florida to Cali and I will record it for you? $250

[Skyraker]

Tramiel didn't ruin Commodore. He was the strength of C= until he left for Atari.


Wise words mate

[little]

Tramiel didn't ruin Commodore. He was the strength of C= until he left for Atari.

You are damn right, if by chance he had been the CEO of Amiga Inc from the start (instead of Bill McEwen) we would have new amiga models and the operative system in the market back in 2000.

[Akiko]

Isn't he ancient by now?

[MarkTime]

Jack Tramiel didn't ruin Commodore.  He ruined Atari.

But that came later...when he first took the company from Warner Bros...he really got the company moving for a few years.  Unfortunately in later years, it was mostly a series of mistakes.

I remember reading stock holder reports that said such gloomy things as 'we cannot sell the units at any price point' and 'we fundamentally don't understand the business we are in'....talking about the jaguar...which completely failed to do 3d well, in a time when that was a requirement.

anyway...still, cannot deny he was there doing great work for a while.

No reason to believe the Tramiel family would have kept Commodore going in later years, though.

[RobertB]

Chain wrote:

> i hope someone will record it

Unknown whether video-recording, audio-recording, or photography will be permitted.  I will try to contact Karen of CHM on Monday and find out the details.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/

[Einstein]

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[tonyyeb]

Are we allowed to bring tomatoes?

Irving Gould has been dead a long time and so wont be there to throw tomatoes at. Jack Tramiel deserves a nice meal to be cooked for him with those tomatoes.

[RobertB]

Today I was able to make phone contact with Karen Tucker of
the Computer History Museum and question her on the details for the event, "The Impact of the Commodore 64: A 25-Year
Celebration".  Here are the specifics:

Location: Computer History Museum, 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd,
(exit from the 101 Freeway) Mountain View, California  94043
Phone: 650 810-1010

Time and format of the event: Monday, Dec. 10
6 pm - 7 pm -- Museum member's reception with the guests.
Beer, wine, and hors' doeuvres served.
7 pm - 8:30 or 9 pm -- First words/speech by Jack Tramiel,
panel discussion, question-and-answer session
Afterwards, informal chit-chat and possible autographs

Admission -- for the reception, free to museum members ($65
membership)
for the event, free general admission ($10 donation requested)

Seating capacity -- 400

Webpage -- Karen remarks that they are "stupidly slow" at
updating the events' page at
http://www.computerhistory.org/events/  but assures that
the event "is really going to happen... definitely".

Guests to speak/appear (updated) -- Jack Tramiel (pronounced
/tra mel/, Karen tells), former CEO of Commodore Business
Machines

Steve Wozniak of Apple fame

William C. Lowe, father of the IBM PC

Adam Chowaniec, former vice-president of technology for
Amiga at Commodore Business Machines

John Markoff, moderator of the panel discussion and New
York Times reporter and author of the computer history
book, "What the Dormouse"

Leonard Tramiel, former vice-president of software
development and v.p. of advanced technology at Atari
Corporation

Jeri Ellsworth, engineer behind the CommodoreOne and the
C64 DTV

Media recording - photography (no flash), videography, and
audio-taping permitted.  Possible webcast from Liquid
Computing of Canada (Chowaniec's current company),
which is sponsoring the event.


Some items are still in flux; when I have further updates, I will
post them.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/