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- From: uglmiller@cc.memphis.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: Jack Tramiel
- Date: 11 Apr 96 03:26:27 -0500
- Organization: The University of Memphis
- Message-ID: <1996Apr11.032627@msuvx2.memphis.edu>
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- In article <4juljj$mfp$1@mhadf.production.compuserve.com>, Hans-Martin Krober <74774.21@CompuServe.COM> writes:
- >>Please, do not defend him. He does not deserve it after what he
- >>did to Atari and Commodore.
- >
- > I don't want to start a big discussion here about Jack. But what
- > exectly did he do to Commodore? As far as I know it was a one
- > billion dollar company when he left. Great products like the CBM
- > 9000 were in the works which got canned later. He also built up
- > Atari again and kept pushing the industry forward at least until
- > 1990. I remember when German business magazines were just
- > astonished by the 520ST which was 1/3 of the price of a Mac and
- > 1/4 of the price of an IBM AT. I have never seen people as amazed
- > at a CeBIT as they were when Atari showed the 520ST in 85. They
- > were standing there with their mouths wide open. Yes, many things
- > should have been done differently. But the whole industry changed.
- > There is no more (orginal) Commodore, no more Sinclair, Oric,
- > Tandy, Dragon, Amstrad etc. And even Apple seems to have problems
- > competing against Wintel. The good old days are over. I know many
- > people don't agree with his business style and it's definetly
- > unique. So far he has survived. I can say that I enjoyed many of
- > Tramiel's products: the VIC-20, C-64, the 520ST, Mega ST, TT, Lynx
- > and Jaguar. Those were good products at a great price.
- >
- > Best regards,
- > Hans-Martin
-
- The Jag is a powerful machine selling for roughly the price of a SNES. Only
- Jack could keep something like that from succeeding...
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