Commodore Free Magazine Issue #61 (PDF)
Commodore Free Magazine Issue #61 (PDF)
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As you will no doubt be aware Jack passed away recently<br />
at the age of 83 (Sunday 8th April 2012)<br />
Jack was born in Poland in 1928 into a Jewish family,<br />
Jack and his family survived imprisonment in Auschwitz.<br />
The family emigrated to the U.S. in 1947 and<br />
Jack joined the army and learnt how to repair typewriters.<br />
EDITORIAL<br />
In 1955 he moved to Toronto and founded a typewriter<br />
business called “<strong>Commodore</strong> Business Machines”<br />
it’s suggested Jack wanted a military name<br />
but Admiral and General were already taken. After<br />
various innovations <strong>Commodore</strong> would move again<br />
to Silicon Valley in the 1960’s and moved into the<br />
digital market selling calculators and then finally<br />
moved into the home computer market. <strong>Commodore</strong><br />
purchased MOS Technologies where the parts<br />
for the <strong>Commodore</strong> range of computers would readily<br />
be available and at rock bottom prices. In 1982<br />
<strong>Commodore</strong> released the <strong>Commodore</strong> 64 home<br />
computer selling almost 17 million units. The Guinness<br />
Book of World Records lists the <strong>Commodore</strong> 64<br />
as the best-selling computer model of all time.<br />
www.commodorefree.com<br />
Jack left <strong>Commodore</strong> in 1984 and purchased the consumer<br />
division of Atari. Jack over saw the Atari Jaguar<br />
development. Jack was a very keen business<br />
man and always drove the prices of machines down.<br />
One of Jacks many famous quotes was<br />
“Machines for the masses not the classes”<br />
Interview with Jack<br />
http://www.commodore.ca/history/people/1989_y<br />
ou_dont_know_jack.htm<br />
In this issue<br />
We have the usual news and some more cp/m tutorials<br />
we also continue or on off look at programming,<br />
and as a memorial to Jack we have my personal look<br />
at <strong>Commodore</strong> and what <strong>Commodore</strong> gave me as<br />
an individual. Of course you will have your own<br />
unique stories about <strong>Commodore</strong> and fights with<br />
owners of other, machines about how <strong>Commodore</strong><br />
is better than XYZ. Heck the debates still go on as to<br />
why X machine is better than Y. To me it was <strong>Commodore</strong><br />
all the way, sadly as jack left the company<br />
that direction seemed to falter somewhat, and commodore<br />
lost its direction. With Jack at the helm <strong>Commodore</strong><br />
gave me personally many years of happy<br />
computing (and it still does)<br />
Bye Jack<br />
Let’s hope you are in silicone heaven.<br />
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