No family name is more associated with the early popularization of computers than Tramiel. We speak with Leonard Tramiel, son of Commodore co-founder Jack Tramiel about his life growing up around tech, his role in Commodore's earliest machines and becoming VP of Software at Atari.
In this first part of our interview Leonard talks about programming Commodore calculators, advising his dad on the entry into computers, creating PETSCII, Jack's departure from Commodore, and the start of what would become the Atari ST.
Recorded March 2022.
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Links:
https://www.seti.org/leonard-tramiel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_International
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Tramiel
http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/commodore_calculators.html
https://vintage-technology.club/pages/calculators/commodore/calcrefcom.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Peddle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Door_into_Summer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Electronics_Show
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_PET
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PETSCII
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_VIC-20
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari#Atari_Corporation_(1984%E2%80%931996)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiraz_Shivji
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Mensch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_ST
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_ST#Operating_system
https://vintagecomputerstories.blogspot.com/2022/01/if-looks-could-kill.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_TED
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Panther
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Jaguar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Minter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack
Virtual Light Machine - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V21Dv9zfDhc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Jaguar#Jaguar_VR
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JT_Storage
Leonard Tramiel Scepticism - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=936ORwrr7AM
Leonard Tramiel TEDx - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRBU8pEDWwY
Atari Annual Report 1994 - https://archive.org/details/AtariCorporationAnnualReport1994/page/n12/mode/1up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Meeting
Leonard Tramiel at CommVEx 2015 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfJzMAyDh_I
Other resources:
https://dayintechhistory.com/news/jack-tramiel-family-years-atari/
https://www.arcadeattack.co.uk/leonard-tramiel/
