XPost: comp.sys.cbm, rec.games.video.classic   
   From: payton@paytonnospambyrd.com   
      
   "Didimo"  wrote in message n   
   ws:m95mh35h4svs30kbjejfqt73acldpst73p@4ax.com...   
   > On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:26:50 GMT, "Sam Gillett"   
   >  wrote:   
   >    
   >    
   >>> Good enough a reason for me to go there and bring lots of eggs and rotten   
   >>> tomato.  He pretty much killed Atari in the late 80's.   
   >>   
   >>Slither back under your rock!  Everyone with half a brain knows that Jack   
   >>Tramiel is THE hero of The Personal Computer Revolution.   
   >    
   > Funny how what to you is the hero of the PCR to me is the culprit of   
   > the decadence of gaming.    
   > I clearly remember (since I was 20/21 at the time) how sad it was that   
   > no more games would come out for my beloved Colecovision, Vectrex,   
   > Intellivision and Atari (in that order, BTW), and everybody all of a   
   > sudden was spending their whole time typing crappy programs from   
   > computer magazines which never worked, or spending hours trying to   
   > trim properly the stupid head of their stupid C64 tape players. Not to   
   > mention loading tape after tape of "games", 75% of which had NO   
   > playability whatsoever....   
   >    
   >>BTW, Atari would have died sooner than it did had it not been for Jack   
   >>Tramiel.  Jack's Atari ST was the only thing keeping Atari alive during it   
   >>last couple of years.   
   >    
   > Were you there in 1983/4? And by "there" I mean alive and as a   
   > rational being? I was 20/21 and paying very much attention to the   
   > videogaming world.. And I don't mean just inserting coins in Pac-Man   
   > machines...   
   >    
   > Simon   
   >    
   >   
      
   Why are you in a classic computer forum?  Are you here simply to be a Troll at   
   the mention of Jack Tramiel.  The information age wouldn't be possible without   
   a large number of programmers, and it's that large number of CBM machines that   
   seeded the first    
   great wave of programmers into the marketplace.  Yes, there were programmers   
   before the CBM machines, but they were stuck in lab coats at universities and   
   IBM, and practically nowhere else.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)