Heck the debates still go on as to why X machine is better than Y. Of course you will have your own unique stories about Commodore and fights with owners of other, machines about how Commodore is better than XYZ. We have the usual news and some more cp/m tutorials we also continue or on off look at programming, and as a memorial to Jack we have my personal look at Commodore and what Commodore gave me as an individual. “Machines for the masses not the classes” Interview with Jack
Jack was a very keen business man and always drove the prices of machines down. Jack over saw the Atari Jaguar development. Jack left Commodore in 1984 and purchased the consumer division of Atari. The Guinness Book of World Records lists the Commodore 64 as the best-selling computer model of all time. In 1982 Commodore released the Commodore 64 home computer selling almost 17 million units. Commodore purchased MOS Technologies where the parts for the Commodore range of computers would readily be available and at rock bottom prices. After various innovations Commodore would move again to Silicon Valley in the 1960’s and moved into the digital market selling calculators and then finally moved into the home computer market. In 1955 he moved to Toronto and founded a typewriter business called “Commodore Business Machines” it’s suggested Jack wanted a military name but Admiral and General were already taken.
in 1947 and Jack joined the army and learnt how to repair typewriters. Jack was born in Poland in 1928 into a Jewish family, Jack and his family survived imprisonment in Auschwitz. As you will no doubt be aware Jack passed away recently at the age of 83 (Sunday 8th April 2012)