Leonard Tramiel - Part 2 - Atari

No family name is more associated with the early popularization of computers than Tramiel. We speak with Leonard Tramiel, son of Commodore co-founder Jack Tramiel about his life growing up around tech, his role in Commodore's earliest machines and becoming VP of Software at Atari. In this second part of our interview, Leonard talks about the reshaping of Atari after the crash, the creation of the Atari ST, working with Greg Kildall on TOS, relaunching the VCS and 7800, the development of the Lynx and Jaguar, working with greats like Jon Carmack and Jeff Minter, and the ultimate end of Tramiel Atari. Recorded March 2022. Get us on your mobile device: Android: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly92aWRlb2dhbWVuZXdzcm9vbXRpbWVtYWNoaW5lLmxpYnN5bi5jb20vcnNz iOS: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/video-game-newsroom-time-machine And if you like what we are doing here at the podcast, don't forget to like us on your podcasting app of choice, YouTube, and/or support us on patreon! https://www.patreon.com/VGNRTM Send comments on twitter @videogamenewsr2 Or Instagram https://www.instagram.com/vgnrtm Or [email protected] Links: https://www.seti.org/leonard-tramiel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_International https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Tramiel http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/commodore_calculators.html https://vintage-technology.club/pages/calculators/commodore/calcrefcom.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Peddle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Door_into_Summer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Electronics_Show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_PET https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PETSCII https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_VIC-20 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari#Atari_Corporation_(1984%E2%80%931996) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiraz_Shivji https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Mensch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_ST https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_ST#Operating_system https://vintagecomputerstories.blogspot.com/2022/01/if-looks-could-kill.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_TED https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Panther https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Jaguar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Minter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack Virtual Light Machine - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V21Dv9zfDhc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Jaguar#Jaguar_VR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JT_Storage Leonard Tramiel Scepticism - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=936ORwrr7AM Leonard Tramiel TEDx - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRBU8pEDWwY Atari Annual Report 1994 - https://archive.org/details/AtariCorporationAnnualReport1994/page/n12/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Meeting Leonard Tramiel at CommVEx 2015 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfJzMAyDh_I Other resources: https://dayintechhistory.com/news/jack-tramiel-family-years-atari/ https://www.arcadeattack.co.uk/leonard-tramiel/