Jack Tramiel is born
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13th December 1928 Jack Tramiel (December 13, 1928 - April 8, 2012) is born Idek Trzmiel in Poland. After migrating to the United States, Tramiel started a typewriter company called Commodore Portable Typewriter. The company later made calculators, and when the designer told Tramiel that calculators were a dead end, and computers were the future - Jack Tramiel told him to build one and prove the point. Chuck Peddle, the designer, presented the Commodore PET. Commodore was formed and later released the VIC-20, and then the Commodore 64, which was the best-selling home micro computer of all time, selling between 11 and 19 million units. The name Commodore was chosen as Tramiel wanted a military name, but Admiral and General were already taken. It was during this time that Tramiel famously said "We need to build computers for the masses, not the classes." Related information: Image:
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