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Jack Tramiel, the founder of Commodore International and crucial figure in the early history of personal computing,? has passed away at the age of 83. If you remember, the commodore was the first and the biggest PC device ever sold in the history of computing.
Tramiel was born in Poland to a Jewish family in 1928 and first established the Commodore name in business in 1953. In America, Tramiel started a typewriter repair business. Staying in the forefront of technology, his typewriters morphed into calculators, and later computers. In 1982, Commodore International launched the Commodore 64, which went on to the best-selling personal computer of all time. In 1984, after being forced to leave the company he founded, Jack bought the crumbling Atari Inc.?s Consumer Division and formed Atari Corporation.
?Jack Tramiel was an immense influence in the consumer electronics and computing industries. A name once uttered in the same vein as Steve Jobs is today, his journey from concentration camp survivor to captain of industry is the stuff of legends,? says Martin Goldberg, a writer working on a book about the Atari brand and the early days of video games and computing with Atari Museum founder Curt Vendel.
?His legacy are the generations upon generations of computer scientists, engineers, and gamers who had their first exposure to high technology because of his affordable computers ? ?for the masses and not the classes.??
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