| Posted By
RobertB
on 2007-10-20
03:11:19
|  Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!!
Gigantic surprise! Former CEO of Commodore Business
Machines, Jack Tramiel, will be making a rare public appearance!
Yesterday I received a message on the answering machine from
Karen Tucker, CMO/VP of Public Programs for the Computer
History Museum in Mountain View (San Jose area), California.
Here is part of what she said:
... I thought you might be happy to know that the museum is
going to have a celebration of the impact of the Commodore 64
on December 10. It's kind of a 25th anniversary celebration,
and Jack Tramiel will speak as well as Steve Wozniak and
William C. Lowe, the father of the IBM PC, and Adam Chulaniak
(sp?) who was the Amiga guy at Commodore, and we're still
settling on the moderator. But I thought that if you are still
part of the Fresno Commodore User Group... that you guys
might want to make the trip down to Mountain View for this
event on December 10.
All day today I've been playing phone tag with Karen in
order to get more details and received another message
saying that the exact title of that night's program is "The
Impact of the Commodore 64: A 25-Year Celebration". More
details to come when I find out more.
The Computer History Museum is located at 1401 N.
Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View, California 94043. The
website is http://www.computerhistory.org
I am so there for this event!
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
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Posted By
RobertB
on 2007-10-22
20:58:45
| Re: Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!!
Today I was able to make phone contact with Karen Tucker of
the Computer History Museum and question her on the details for
the event, "The Impact of the Commodore 64: A 25-Year
Celebration". Here are the specifics:
Location: Computer History Museum, 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd,
(exit from the 101 Freeway) Mountain View, California 94043
Phone: 650 810-1010
Time and format of the event: Monday, Dec. 10
6 pm - 7 pm -- Museum member's reception with the guests.
Beer, wine, and hors' doeuvres served.
7 pm - 8:30 or 9 pm -- First words/speech by Jack Tramiel,
panel discussion, question-and-answer session
Afterwards, informal chit-chat and possible autographs
Admission -- for the reception, free to museum members ($65
membership)
for the event, free general admission ($10 donation requested)
Seating capacity -- 400
Webpage -- Karen remarks that they are "stupidly slow" at
updating the events' page at
http://www.computerhistory.org/events/ but assures that
the event "is really going to happen... definitely".
Guests to speak/appear (updated) -- Jack Tramiel (pronounced
/tra mel/, Karen tells), former CEO of Commodore Business
Machines
Steve Wozniak of Apple fame
William C. Lowe, father of the IBM PC
Adam Chowaniec, former vice-president of technology for
Amiga at Commodore Business Machines
John Markoff, moderator of the panel discussion and New
York Times reporter and author of the computer history
book, "What the Dormouse"
Leonard Tramiel, former vice-president of software
development and v.p. of advanced technology at Atari
Corporation
Jeri Ellsworth, engineer behind the CommodoreOne and the
C64 DTV
Media recording - photography (no flash), videography, and
audio-taping permitted. Possible webcast from Liquid
Computing of Canada (Chowaniec's current company),
which is sponsoring the event.
Some items are still in flux; when I have further updates, I will
post them.
Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
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Posted By
RobertB
on 2007-11-10
03:59:27
| Re: Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!!
The event, "The Impact of the Commodore 64: A 25-Year
Celebration", with Jack Tramiel is now listed at the Computer
History Museum's website at
http://www.computerhistory.org/events/
Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
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Posted By
RobertB
on 2007-11-15
22:48:44
| Re: Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!!
On Nov 10, 8:17 am, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> Robert, have you heard anything about when tickets will be available?
Yesterday I spoke to Valerie, events person at CHM. She said that
the event looks as if it's going to be a sell-out (capacity set at 400 with
no extra space due to fire marshal restrictions). Ticket pre-
registration for sponsors and invitees opens up tonight. Regular
registration for the general public opens up at the end of the month.
Registration details will be at the website -- http://www.computerhistory.org
In another phone call with her today, and she provided clarification;
if you become a Computer History Museum member for $65, you can be
put on the pre-registration list for the event.
Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
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Posted By
RobertB
on 2007-11-17
02:40:54
| Re: Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!!
Bil Herd, CBM lead engineer in the development of the Commodore
128, has now confirmed that he will attend the event.
Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
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Posted By
Degauss
on 2007-11-19
02:18:59
| Re: Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!!
Hopefully, there will be video-recordings or transcriptions of speeches being held.
Do you know anything about that?
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Posted By
RobertB
on 2007-11-19
13:24:38
| Re: Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!!
Degauss wrote:
> Hopefully, there will be video-recordings or transcriptions of speeches being held.
> Do you know anything about that?
Well, this is from the first message in the thread. I wrote:
> Media recording - photography (no flash), videography, and
> audio-taping permitted. Possible webcast from Liquid
> Computing of Canada (Chowaniec's current company),
> which is sponsoring the event.
I myself will be bringing my video camera and still film camera.
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Posted By
RobertB
on 2007-11-20
02:55:05
| Re: Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!!
Received an e-mail from Dave Haynie today. He has
offered to put my event videos up on his YouTube site. And
so, it seems that I will be mailing him DVD copies after the
show (Merry Christmas, Dave!). :-D
Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
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Posted By
RobertB
on 2007-11-29
16:22:15
| Re: Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!!
Registration for the general public has now opened up. Go to
http://www.computerhistory.org/events/index.php?id=1193702785
Also notice the link at that page for watching the event live
over the Net.
Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
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Posted By
RobertB
on 2007-12-11
21:42:42
| Re: Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!!
CNET News has posted a report of the event.
Go to
http://www.news.com/8301-13772_3-9832182-52.html?tag=nefd.top
Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
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Posted By
RobertB
on 2007-12-12
16:50:32
| Re: Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!!
InfoWorld has posted a report on the event. Go to
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/12/12/commodore-64-anniversary_1.html
Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
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Posted By
RobertB
on 2007-12-12
18:05:57
| Re: Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!!
Computerworld has posted an article of the event. Go to
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9052698&intsrc=hm_list
Registry Hardware has posted an article of the event. Go to
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/12/12/commodore_64_anniversary/
Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
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Posted By
RobertB
on 2007-12-12
19:09:35
| Re: Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!!
Macworld has posted an article of the event. Go to
http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/12/12/innovators/index.php
It's the same Agam Shah article.
Mac Life has posted a blurb about the event at
http://www.maclife.com/article/time_picks_iphone_for_top_spot_again_and_woz_remembers_the_good_old_days
but when you click on the link to read more of the Commodore 64,
it shoots you over to the article at the InfoWorld site.
Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
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Posted By
RobertB
on 2007-12-12
22:46:18
| Re: Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!!
Boing! CNET beat all of us to posting videos on the Net. See
a 2 minute, 25 second video of the event at
http://www.news.com/Celebrating-one-of-the-best-selling-PCs-ever/1606-2_3-6222379.html?tag=nefd.lede
Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
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Posted By
RobertB
on 2007-12-13
00:27:18
| Re: Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!!
From: Cameron Kaiser
Anyway, here are some photos. This is Jack at the press reception:
http://www.floodgap.com/temp/qDSCN0785.jpg
Jack and his wife, talking to Bil Herd:
http://www.floodgap.com/temp/qDSCN0795.jpg
The cake Liquid Computing brought along:
http://www.floodgap.com/temp/qDSCN0796.jpg
Bill Ward and I splitting the last piece:
http://www.floodgap.com/temp/qDSCN0800.jpg
And last but not least, yours truly with Leonard and Jack:
http://www.floodgap.com/temp/qDSCN0789.jpg
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Posted By
Degauss
on 2007-12-13
07:00:00
| Re: Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!!
Hi Robert!
Thanks for all the posts. I enjoyed it very much.
BTW: That little yellow paper in Tramiels "On the Edge" might be a hint he didn't read it to the end by now 
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Posted By
RobertB
on 2007-12-14
17:58:14
| Re: Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!!
From: Cameron Kaiser
References trimmed.
A rough cut should be up shortly at
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=504862715223996474&hl=en
I just noticed two typos while scanning the cut. I mistakenly rigged the date
as 12/11 (not 12/10), and it should be Monte Sereno, not Mount. This is what
you get for trying to do this quickly, but it takes about nine hours to
render, transcode and upload, so people can just deal with that for now.
The quality of the video is not very good because I had only a single camera,
there was audience activity I could not always get, and there were glitches
in the PA system. Robert's two camera video will undoubtedly be better, so
I am not going to lose a lot of sleep over it.
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Posted By
RobertB
on 2007-12-14
17:59:45
| Re: Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!!
PC World has posted an article of the event. Go to
http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/006047.html
Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
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Posted By
RobertB
on 2007-12-15
03:29:58
| Re: Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!!
If you all haven't seen them, 9 more photos are available,
starting at
http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-10877_11-179806-5.html
Also Jack Tramiel is interviewed at
http://www.news.com/The-man-behind-the-Commodore-64/2008-1042_3-6222406.html
Hey, I might have filmed part of
that interview,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
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Posted By
RobertB
on 2007-12-15
04:17:24
| Re: Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!!
Whoa! Thanks to Al Kossow for telling this... the Impact of
the Commodore 64 event, filmed by the Computer History Museum,
is now available, along with many other videos, at
http://youtube.com/computerhistory
For those who want to go exactly to the event video, it is at
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NBvbsPNBIyk
A pro production,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
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Posted By
RobertB
on 2007-12-17
15:16:36
| Re: Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!!
Thanks to Larry Anderson for following up on this...
the Computer HIstory Museum now has the video of the
event at their website, in addition to the same one being
at YouTube. The CHM website video is downloadable
and of higher quality than that of the one at YouTube.
Go to
http://www.computerhistory.org/events/index.php?id=1193702785
and click on Full Lecture
Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
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Posted By
RobertB
on 2007-12-22
20:07:13
| Re: Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!!
The San Jose Mercury News newspaper has finally posted a report
of the event. Go to
http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/2007/12/a_few_words_with_jack_tramiel_and_the_commodore_64_gang.html
Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
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Posted By
RobertB
on 2008-01-13
05:46:44
| Re: Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!!
Several more photos taken at the Dec. 10 Computer History Museum's "Impact of the Commodore 64" event with Jack Tramiel are
now on-line at
http://www.dickestel.com/comm25ann.htm
Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
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Posted By
RobertB
on 2008-01-14
23:47:09
| Re: Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!!
In a follow-up to the CHM event, Computerworld has posted an interview with Amiga v.p. of technology, Adam Chowaniec. He talks a bit about the Commodore and a lot about Amiga. Go to
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9052598
Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
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Posted By
Luca
on 2008-01-15
03:37:06
 | Re: Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!!
Robert, very nice pictures of C16 and Plus/4 prototypes at Vintage Computer Festival East 4.0 2007. Who's the lucky supplier?
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Posted By
RobertB
on 2008-01-17
19:51:12
| Re: Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!!
Luca wrote:
> ...nice pictures of C16 and Plus/4 prototypes at Vintage Computer Festival East
> 4.0 2007. Who's the lucky supplier?
I believe that Bil Herd supplied those machines.
Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
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Posted By
RobertB
on 2008-01-17
19:56:32
| Re: Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!!
In December I posted DVD copies of my "Impact of the Commodore 64: a 25th Anniversary" event videos via first class mail to Dave Haynie, CBM engineer and video fanatic, and to Ian Matthews of Commodore.ca They were to do a final edit on the videos and post them up to the Web.
Now I've heard from Ian. Ian has replied that he is "now starting to work on cutting up the content". He remarks, "There is a lot of "great stuff" in that...", and he will post it up as he goes, i.e., he will put it up section by section when he finishes with each.
Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
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Posted By
RobertB
on 2008-01-22
03:26:58
| Re: Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!!
---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
From: "Bruce Thomas"
Date: Wed, January 16, 2008 9:17 pm
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Robert Bernardo wrote:
> In a follow-up to the CHM event, Computerworld has posted an interview with Amiga v.p. of technology, Adam Chowaniec.
> He talks a bit about the Commodore and a lot about Amiga.
Speaking of Adam Chowaniec, just this week I received the Dec 17 issue of eWeek magazine at the office. I don't recall seeing this article on their site and they don't seem to have a searchable archive to point to so I scanned it in.
Chowaniec relates a story I hadn't heard before. Wonder who the rabbit guy was?
Also this story below is contradicted by the Computerworld story Robert pointed to as the CW story says Chowaniec "joined Commodore Computer just a year after the popular Commodore 64 was launched" so how could he have been in on getting the C-64 OS finished? Perhaps the eWeek story is about the AmigaOS.
enGEOy!
Bruce
>From eWeek Magazine
Volume 24, Number 38
December 17, 2007
Page 8
IT Memory Lane
It isn't often that the pioneers of IT get together and swap stories in public about the old times - those long-ago days before iPods, Facebook, instant messaging, and all the quick and easy technology we enjoy and take for granted.
When these gatherings do happen, the de-facto home for them is the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. The museum is located in what used to be a building belonging to SGI, just off the landmark Bayshore Freeway that zips straight down the middle of Silicon Valley.
On Dec.10, the museum played host to a panel discussion to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Commodore 64 personal computer. Sporting all of 64K of memory, the trusty desktop machine performed very well and garnered millions of fans during its decade-long run as the most popular (with the masses) PC.
If the IBM PC and the Apple II were expensive SUVs in 1982, the Commodore was a Volkswagen Beetle, and it was just as beloved.
At a mere $199, most people could afford it.
"We didn't make a lot of money on margin," company founder Jack Tramiel told a standing-room-only audience at the museum, "but we made a lot of friends. They loved our product. I just wish we could have continued to do what we did."
Panel members that night included Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder and co-developer of the Apple I and II; Bill Lowe, whose division at IBM produced the first PC in 1981; Tramiel, who founded Commodore and later took over Atari; and Adam Chowaniec, former CEO of Amiga and a Commodore original.
There were many funny moments in an evening full of memories. But Chowaniec might have had the best story:
"When we were getting down to the wire on the Commodore launch, the operating system was our biggest concern because it wasn't finished yet," he recalled. "We were getting nervous. So we flew to the chief developer's home in some back-woods town and found him in his lab. He had all these computers in there, plus a big cage with a rabbit in it.
"When we found he was spending more time talking to his rabbit than writing code, we really got nervous. But, fortunately, it eventually all worked out."
-Chris Preimesberger
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Posted By
RobertB
on 2008-01-23
00:09:34
| Re: Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!!
From: Ian Matthews
Date: Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:43 pm
Subject: MANY New Commodore Related Video Interviews
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Thanks to Robert Bernardo's video work and 1.5 solid days of editing and converting by www.commodore.ca, we now have a substantial amount of video content posted from the Computer History Museum's: Impact of the Commodore 64.
Note that many of these files are large and we only have a limited amount of bandwidth. As such I recommend that you RIGHT CLICK ON THE APPROPRIATE LINK AND SELECT "SAVE TARGET AS" to download the files to your computer rather than having them run through your browser
http://www.commodore.ca/gallery/video/video.htm
Bil Herd - Commodore C128, Plus/4, Early Days
Bil Herd - Everyone Worked for Jack Tramiel
Bill Lowe - Father of the IBM PC
Jack Tramiel - Atari Deal, Amiga Chips, Irving Gould
Jack Tramiel - MOS Technology was Critical
Jack Tramiel - Commodore History His Own Words
Jack Tramiel - Commodore History - Interview
Steve Wozniak - Tries to Sell Apple to Commodore
NOTE: In a few weeks/months I will re-sort these videos into the appropriate sections of our video page.
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Posted By
RobertB
on 2008-04-02
02:27:45
| Re: Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!!
From: SDF Poster
Date: Apr 1, 8:17 pm
Here is a rip of a cool dvd that has some of the preshow meet and greet at the Computer History Museum. The Woz and Jack Tramiel from a spy cam view.
This is the correct link for the Impact of the C64 video:
http://blip.tv/file/792025
Cheers!
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