The programmer was born in Poland in 1928 and lived there until his youth during World War II was taken to a ghetto and then to Auschwiz concentration camp where he stayed until liberation came in 1945 through the end of the war. In 1947 he emigrated to America where he joined his army, eventually went to work with typewriters in North America and Europe.
He founded Commodore Business Machines in Canada, a company that led to the decade of 80, which sold typewriters, calculators and home computers then. In the following years of his career was in charge of Atari.
The highlight of his career is undoubtedly the launch of the Commodore 64 , a computer that has left a big mark in my youth. He was one of the first computers designed to reach everyone. Successor to the VIC-20 is 8-bit computer was released in 1982 and shortly before the end of the decade was the undisputed leader in the market it created. In the applications that came on tape or diskette was a large catalog of games, graphics applications or tools. In his story had lots of peripherals such as joysticks, modems, mice, etc..
It also has on his resume, when it acquired the consumer division staff of Atari , the launch of the Atari 2600, Atari Lynx and the latest in the famous video game company, a pioneer in using CD, the familiar Jaguar.
Tramiel knew how to develop a computer that could be adapted to different needs and was able to monitor its development with an aggressive trade policy that managed to push his vision of the role that computers would have on the lives of people . You will always have a prominent place in the history of computing. Atari,Commodore,computer,Jack Tramiel,Jaguar,Technology,video game
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