tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967694277763110629.post2765226192297930443..comments2024-03-19T02:11:32.628-07:00Comments on Experience Points: Jack TramielJorge Alborhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04857765716032886965noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967694277763110629.post-67034553874954825262012-05-05T14:46:08.273-07:002012-05-05T14:46:08.273-07:00Without Tramiel's Commodore buying MOS Technol...Without Tramiel's Commodore buying MOS Technologies, it would have failed within months and there would have been no more chips from the facility -- even 6502 era chips.<br /><br />Because of Tramiel's decision to bail the company out, it became a major player in the early technology business -- supplying the brains behind the best-selling personal computer of all time (the Commodore 64) as well as living an additional several years as a producer of the custom chips behind Commodore's Amiga series (released after Tramiel's departure).<br /><br />That's a much better legacy than failure and liquidation in the late 1970s, which was the alternative.inwoodguynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967694277763110629.post-83170478148097363632012-04-24T10:39:12.077-07:002012-04-24T10:39:12.077-07:00A lot of his employees deeply hated Tramiel's ...A lot of his employees deeply hated Tramiel's guts. He single-handedly destroyed what was at the time of the best chip fabricators in the world (MOS Technologies), and this resulted in no real successor to the 6502 while Motorola and Intel's chips went onward and upward. I hesitate to heap flowers on this guy's grave.John Harrishttp://profiles.google.com/johnwhnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967694277763110629.post-63962143215190945712012-04-10T22:19:51.030-07:002012-04-10T22:19:51.030-07:00Wow, strange coincidence, I wrote an essay about J...Wow, strange coincidence, I wrote an essay about Jack Tramiel and other gaming pioneers today. Scared the crap out of me when I saw this pop up in my feed. Some sort of retro-effective Death Note-type Google doc? Strange.<br /><br />But yeah, it seems like he was a great man, and as a player of emulated C64 games, I won't be forgetting his effect on gaming soon.connorcarpenternoreply@blogger.com