Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!newsfeed.bofh.team!paganini.bofh.team!not-for-mail From: Francois LE COAT Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Jack Tramiel interview in 1985 Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 14:45:17 +0100 Organization: To protect and to server Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 13:45:17 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: paganini.bofh.team; logging-data="254591"; posting-host="M6Ydgiogt19OuUmyUfrzbQ.user.paganini.bofh.team"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@bofh.team"; posting-account="9dIQLXBM7WM9KzA+yjdR4A"; User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.3 X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://paganini.bofh.team:119 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.atari.st:2115 Hi, Here I share an interview with Jack Tramiel in 1985, about the ST. *The Famous Computer Cafe 1985-01-17 Jack Tramiel (Atari)* *and Bobby Kotick (Arktronics)* Sur la chaine de Kay Savetz le 04/09/2024 The Famous Computer Cafe 1985-01-17, with interviews with Jack Tramiel, chairman of Atari; and Bobby Kotick, chairman of Arktronics (age 21.) Aired on KFOX. Digitized from reel-to-reel tape by Harbor Digitizing of Friday Harbor, Washington. The Famous Computer Cafe recovery and digitization project was done by Kay Savetz in 2024. If you have access to other episodes of Famous Computer Cafe on tape, please contact Kay Savetz. It's been almost 40 years. I hope that this fortieth anniversary will be celebrated as it should be, next year. We learn that Jack Tramiel did not conceive the ATARI ST to do a real commercial business. But he wanted to reach people like us, students, not too fortunate, and who could not afford a Macintosh or an IBM/PC. Because computers were way too expensive at the moment he speaks... ATARIstically yours =3D) --=20 Fran=E7ois LE COAT Author of Eureka 2.12 (2D Graph Describer, 3D Modeller) https://eureka.atari.org/