From: nospam.Dave.Drum@f757.n153.z1.binkp.net   
      
   -=> Tristan Miller wrote to Simon Geddes <=-   
      
    > and ambition to do the Vic as a low-cost computer for all. I'm not sure,   
    > but I feel this was partly motivated by a sense of public purpose.   
      
    TM> I haven't read The Home Computer Wars, but that's not at all the   
    TM> impression I got of Tramiel from reading Brian Bagnall's "On the Edge:   
    TM> The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore" (or whatever it happened to   
    TM> be called at the time -- the author seems to change the title of the   
    TM> book with every edition).  Anyways, from that book it was pretty clear   
    TM> that Tramiel was driven purely by profit and egotism, not any higher   
    TM> social purpose.  After reading the book (and watching the "Commodore   
    TM> Story" documentary) I came away with a much less favourable impression   
    TM> of Tramiel than I had had previously.   
      
   Jack, who dumped CBM in favour of Atari (nee Tramiel Technology Ltd.)   
   was just as much about money as Irving (Gould) and Medhi (Ali) who came   
   after him at Commodore and busted it out for fun and (especially) profit.   
      
   ... Amiga made it possible. Commodore made it dead.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)