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Events : Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!! |
posted by RobertB on 20-Oct-2007 7:06:23 (8001 reads) |
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:
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... 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 www.computerhistory.org
I am so there for this event! Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group url=http://videocam.net.au/fcug]http://videocam.net.au/fcug[/url] The Other Group of Amigoids http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/ |
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Re: Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!! Posted on 20-Oct-2007 11:54:48
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| Nice one! Make some videos and get them on youtube. |
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Re: Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!! Posted on 20-Oct-2007 12:53:59
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| Yeah, awesome! Would like to see a video too. He is the true Commodore front man ruthless but effective. It's a shame Irving Gould pushed him out of his own company. With friends like that.... _________________ "Art challenges technology. Technology inspires the art." John Lasseter, Co-Founder of Pixar Animation Studios
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Re: Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!! Posted on 20-Oct-2007 15:38:04
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Re: Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!! Posted on 21-Oct-2007 9:32:40
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| Post it on YouTube, or it didn't happen _________________ Author of the PortablE programming language. It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue...
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Re: Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!! Posted on 23-Oct-2007 1:14:35
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| 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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Re: Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!! Posted on 5-Nov-2007 23:48:38
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| Met with Dale Luck, Amiga software engineer, yesterday at the 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.
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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Re: Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!! Posted on 17-Nov-2007 8:01:03
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| On Nov 10, 8:17 am, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> Robert, have you heard anything about when tickets will be available?
On Nov. 14 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 soon. 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 Nov. 15, 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.
In an e-mail received last night, 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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Re: Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!! Posted on 20-Nov-2007 8:17:37
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| 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!).
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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Re: Jack Tramiel at Computer History Museum - Dec. 10 !!! Posted on 29-Nov-2007 21:25:58
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