Jack Tramiel (/trəˈmɛl/ trə-MEL; born Idek Trzmiel; December 13, 1928 – April 8, 2012) was a Polish-American businessman and Holocaust survivor, best known...

manufacturer of computers and video game consoles. It was founded by Jack Tramiel on May 17, 1984, as Tramel Technology, Ltd., but then took on the Atari...

As the Apple II gained momentum with the advent of VisiCalc in 1979, Jack Tramiel wanted a product that would compete in the same segment, to be presented...

manufacturer with executive offices in the United States founded by Jack Tramiel and Irving Gould. Commodore International (CI), along with its subsidiary...

Communications sold the home console and computer division of Atari to Jack Tramiel in July 1984, who then renamed his company Atari Corporation. Atari,...

first home computer with a cost per kilobyte of RAM under US$1/KB. After Jack Tramiel purchased the assets of the Atari, Inc. consumer division to create Atari...

initially produced mechanical typewriters and calculators. In 1965, Jack Tramiel, Commodore's founder and CEO, decided to purchase the Canadian store...

also released in 1984. The game was named after Commodore's founder Jack Tramiel. Each level is laid out in a rectangular grid. The levels contain the...

small computer kit based on the 6502. At Commodore, Peddle convinced Jack Tramiel that calculators were a dead-end and that Commodore should explore the...

July 2, 1984, Warner Communications sold Atari's Consumer Division to Jack Tramiel. All projects were halted during an initial evaluation period. GCC had...

MOS Technology), they proposed to Commodore CEO Jack Tramiel a low-cost sequel to the VIC-20. Tramiel dictated that the machine should have 64 KB of random-access...

and computer divisions of the original Atari Inc. were sold off to Jack Tramiel's Tramel Technology Ltd., which then renamed itself to Atari Corporation...

Atari's home division to former Commodore CEO Jack Tramiel in 1984. In 1986, the new Atari Corporation under Tramiel released a lower-cost version of the 2600...

TI-99/4A followed Commodore's VIC-20 by several months. Commodore CEO Jack Tramiel began a price war by repeatedly lowering the price of the VIC-20 and...

based on the Lorraine chipset which became the Amiga. Commodore founder Jack Tramiel resigned in January 1984 and in July, he purchased the Atari consumer...

"show off" the 6502 chip. At Commodore, Peddle convinced the owner, Jack Tramiel, that calculators were a dead end, and that home computers would soon...

closer match for the TI-99/4A than the aging VIC-20. Commodore president Jack Tramiel feared that one or more Japanese companies would introduce a consumer-oriented...

Citrix Systems, Inc., former executive VP of Microsoft Business Solutions Jack Tramiel (1928–2012), Polish-born founder of Commodore International and the Atari...

BASIC from Microsoft in 1977 on a "pay once, no royalties" basis after Jack Tramiel turned down Bill Gates' offer of a $3 per unit fee, stating, "I'm already...

founder and eponym of Helena Rubinstein Incorporated cosmetics company Jack Tramiel (1928-2012), businessman and founder of Commodore International Warner...

these systems were still incomplete when the company was purchased by Jack Tramiel in July 1984 and the majority of the staff was laid off. Only the synthesizer...

make money. In 1984, Warner sold Atari's consumer products division to Jack Tramiel; he named this company Atari Corporation. Warner retained the coin-op...

split up, with the home console and personal computer divisions sold to Jack Tramiel and renamed Atari Corporation. The arcade coin-op division was retained...

Mace, Scott (August 6, 1984). "A New Atari Corp.: The House That Jack Tramiel Emptied". InfoWorld. p. 52. Retrieved January 27, 2011. "Atari 7200"...

contest period, in mid-1984, Atari was sold to Jack Tramiel, the owner of Commodore International. Tramiel, who had been more focused on the success of...

it never even started, due to Atari selling its consumer division to Jack Tramiel. The arcade game was under development with the title Agent X when the...

Communications sold the assets of the consumer division of Atari, Inc. to Jack Tramiel in July of that year, and were ultimately picked up by publisher Epyx...

the AMY-1 was ready for production, Atari was in disarray. In July, Jack Tramiel bought Atari from Warner Communications and quickly dismantled the majority...

THE HOME COMPUTER WARS: An Insider's True Account of Commodore and Jack Tramiel. His role is also documented extensively in numerous interviews and articles...

make it a tie-in to the film The Last Starfighter (1984). Following Jack Tramiel's purchase of Atari in 1984, Atari's production of console games was halted...