Update on Jack Tramiel at CHM - Dec. 10 !!!
rber...@value.net
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/
Geir Helland
rber...@value.net wrote:
> 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
If anyone could videotape the speeches, put them up on youtube and post
the urls here, it would be greatly appreciated.
-- G.H.
Klompmeester
"Geir Helland" <ne...@outofline.no> wrote in message
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I've been asking Robert to do just that for the community for ages, to no
avail.
Maybe we need a poll... who would like to see some highlights of shows,
clips of iconic C= people past and present (Jim Butterfield for instance)
and various speeches on youtube so the greater worldwide C= community can
enjoy them and not just a clique of people?
The steps are pretty simple...
Using Windows Movie Maker, edit out select clips, save them as broadband
quality 4:3 320x240 @ 25fps (512kbps for better results) and upload to
youtube.
Daniel Mandic
> Using Windows Movie Maker, edit out select clips, save them as
> broadband quality 4:3 320x240 @ 25fps (512kbps for better results)
> and upload to youtube.
Broadband Quality :)
Stop nerving!!!
Best regards,
Daniel Mandic
P.S.: You mean the modern Broadcast Quality :)))) [However, but digital]
rber...@value.net
Vintage Computer Festival 10.0. After congratulating him and teasing
him a bit on his recent marriage, I mentioned that Jack Tramiel would
be speaking at the Computer History Museum on Dec. 10. Surprised, he
remarked that he didn't know anything about it. I described the event
to him and the times. I mentioned that Adam Chowaniec would be there,
and he said that knew Adam. Dale was interested in going to the event
and would tell other Amiga engineers, too.
rber...@value.net
History Museum's website at
http://www.computerhistory.org/events/
Klompmeester
<rber...@value.net> wrote in message
news:1194684556.8...@s15g2000prm.googlegroups.com...
> 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/
>
Who's going to be there to egg him on... so to speak? :-^
Daniel Mandic
If you would do so you would ate five ostrich eggs by me...
Best regards,
Daniel Mandic
Klompmeester
"Daniel Mandic" <daniel...@aon.at> wrote in message
news:473728ec$0$12081$91ce...@newsreader02.highway.telekom.at...
Could you repeat that in English please?
Daniel Mandic
> > > Who's going to be there to egg him on... so to speak? :-^
> >
> > If you would do so you would ate five ostrich eggs by me...
> >
>
> Could you repeat that in English please?
pfrhhh... that was even digital English, you dumbhead. Read the lines,
or train yourself a bit by playing some Scramble with ppl younger than
you.
Your childishly grown ups lines you bring out, makes my Computer shaky.
Besen regards,
Daniel Mandic
P.S.: you should have asked: "Can you explain your english?"
My Answer: "just play back!" (it was nothing you couldn't return)
Klompmeester
> Klompmeester wrote:
>
>> > > Who's going to be there to egg him on... so to speak? :-^
>> >
>> > If you would do so you would ate five ostrich eggs by me...
>> >
>>
>> Could you repeat that in English please?
>
> pfrhhh... that was even digital English,
It was nonsensical, hence the polite request to rephrase.
If your comments can't be understood, it's difficult to understand what
point you are trying to make.
Just trying to help.
rber...@value.net
> Robert, have you heard anything about when tickets will be available?
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
rber...@value.net
> Ticket pre-registration for sponsors and invitees opens up tonight. Regular
> registration for the general public opens up at the end of the month.
Another phone call with Valerie, and she provided clarification;
if you
become a museum member for $65, you can be put on the pre-
registration list for the event.
rber...@value.net
128, has now confirmed that he will attend the event.
rber...@value.net
> ...you are going to videotape this thing right?
Yes, the videocamera is ready, and I've just ordered a
professional microphone in order to capture the event in all
its audio clarity.
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
> ...bring two video cameras just in case one craps out.
I'll have my hands full with the Sony camcorder and the
Nikon N80 still camera. Bil Herd will bring his little still
camera, though. :-)
I was joking at Sunday's FCUG meeting that if I had my
druthers, I would have a boomman carrying around the mic
for me.
> I'll tell you what would be completely cool is to get
> Tramiel to autograph my copy of "On the Edge
> the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore"....that
> would be too cool!!!
Too late! :-) Jack Rubin has already given me his copy
of On the Edge and his copy of Home Computer Wars for
Tramiel to autograph (should such a moment come).
Haven't decided yet if I should bring one of my own things
for Tramiel to sign.
rber...@value.net
http://www.computerhistory.org/events/index.php?id=1193702785
Also notice the link at that page for watching the event live
over the Net.
rber...@value.net
http://www.news.com/8301-13772_3-9832182-52.html?tag=nefd.top
rber...@value.net
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/12/12/commodore-64-anniversary_1.html
rber...@value.net
Hey, the same writer,
rber...@value.net
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/12/12/commodore_64_anniversary/
Truly,
rber...@value.net
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
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.
rber...@value.net
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
rber...@value.net
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:
rber...@value.net
http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/006047.html
rber...@value.net
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.
rber...@value.net
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,
rber...@value.net
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,
rber...@value.net
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,
rber...@value.net
> 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...
The DVD copies have been mailed to Dave Haynie and to
Ian Matthews of Commodore.ca
rber...@value.net
of the event. Go to
Truly,
rber...@value.net
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,
rber...@value.net
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
rber...@value.net
> All the DVD copies have been mailed off to Ian and Dave.
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.
rber...@value.net
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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
rber...@value.net
Date: Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:43 pm
Subject: MANY New Commodore Related Video Interviews
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
rber...@value.net
> I was looking around and found this:
>
> http://www.cnettv.com/9742-1_53-31867.html
It's an edited video put out by Geek Entertainment
TV and Blip.tv. The full Jack Tramiel video interview
is at http://blip.tv/file/564449 , and the full Leonard
Tramiel interview is at http://blip.tv/file/564483 .
I can't find the full Steve Wozniak and Bill Lowe
interviews at Blip.tv, and so if you find them, let
us know. At least the edited video gives us part of
their interviews.
Thanks for the info,