RIP, Jack Tramiel (1928-2012). #c64

If you’re wondering who Jack Tramiel is: he’s the guy who founded Commodore Business Machines International, which of course was the company that produced the Commodore 64 – which is of course the first computer that a lot of people my age and below ever owned.  Certainly the C64 was my first computer. I don’t want to either overstate or understate the importance of the C64: suffice it to say that having a legitimately useful, affordable personal computer available to middle-class families did its part towards developing our current digital culture.

Even if you did have to put the power adapters in the freezer in order to cool them down.

Moe Lane