Low End Computers (1985)

The Computer Chronicles
4/12/1985, Redwood City, CA

"Low End Computers"

A great episode for some insight into the management of Commodore and Atari at this time.

Guests: Jack Tramiel, Atari; Leonard Tramiel, Atari; Frank Leonardi, Commodore

Whatever Happened to the Tramiels?
http://alive.atari.org/alive6/tramiel.php

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• commodore
• atari
• tramiel

[conradojavier]

Give Us the Damn Sword.

[rjp443]

@cryinglion They made it clear that they were talking about personal computers and NOT toys like the NES/Famicom. While it is true the Japanese penetrated and completely dominated the home video game market after 1985, conversely, they never even got their foot in the door in U.S. or world home computing markets. Didn't even get to see the door. Hell, they weren't even allowed to enter the building!

Ever use MSX? PC98? FM Towns? No? Because they were all Japanese exclusives. They didn't even try

[JasonLee310]

@cryinglion

Ray Kassar resigned from Atari because of illegal insider trading

[JasonLee310]

@cryinglion

1983 Consumer Electronics Show Coleco was displaying their computer and it included Donkey Kong Atari CEO Ray Kassar was furious as Atari owned the floppy disk rights to publish Donkey Kong he accused Nintendo of double dealing with the Donkey Kong license Nintendo tore into Coleco who only owned the console rights to the game Ray Kassar was forced to leave Atari while executives had to start over again from scratch Nintendo decided to go with the Famicom/NES project without Atari

[TookMe20min2findThis]

Thanks Leonard for your inputs, that was very informative!

[MrCumstein]

@conradojavier LMAO

[rjp443]

@MysticArksRevenge Music processor, yes, though the SID chip during the 8-bit era was hard to top in flexibility. Hardware was better, if not proprietary or exotic.

The software on Japanese platforms were SERIOUSLY lacking. I'm not talking about games. I'm talking where the REAL money is: office productivity, OS, and utility software, which was hyper-localized to Japan.

It could not compete with western offerings, which also became multi-regional. Japan ended up making great peripherals though.

[MysticArksRevenge]

@rjp443 And that makes me very angry. Japan OBIVIOUSLY has the better hardware, better software AND the better music processor in their computers.

[suggarin]

WOW AMERICAN COMPUTERS BUILT BY AMERICANS !!

[conradojavier]

@cryinglion in Hindsight Nintendo give a Bird to Atari(Under Tramiel).

[conradojavier]

@cryinglion Warner Bros should have sold Atari back to Bushnell instead of a Commodore Founder.