MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: Jack Tramiel Dies at age 83

> The article skipped right over the VIC-20, and never went forward to the C-128 or
> Amiga (Or did those come after Tramiel left?)

Tramiel didn't have anything to do with the Amiga, at least not directly, which is good. And at first, neither did Commodore. Jay Miner, the leader of the team that designed and built the Amiga, used to work for Atari where he designed the display hardware for the Atari 2600. They started out as a company called "Hi-Toro", fronting as a gaming peripheral company so as to keep their new amazing Amiga technology a secret from Silicon Valley industry spies!

After getting sacked from Commodore by his own board of directors, Tramiel bought out Atari's computer division, put all their projects on hold, fired almost everyone, brought some old friends over from Commodore, and while suing everyone left and right, his answer to the Amiga was the inferior Atari 520ST, which he managed to put in the stores a while before the Amiga 1000 came out. The only cool thing about the Atari ST was that it had a built-in MIDI interface. The Amiga totally blew it away.

The 128 is definitely from later than 1984 so, yep not while he was boss.

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