phipps@fortune.UUCP (01/25/84)
The issue ("Feb. 6" ?) of InfoWorld that arrived yesterday (Monday, Jan. 23)
had a late-breaking report that Jack Tramiel (sp.? Trameil ?) had resigned
as vice-chairman of Commodore for "personal reasons".
The chairman congratulated Tramiel on his past successes at Commodore,
and gave the usual "gold watch"-style send-off speech.
There was no mention of anything like a management style difference
or any other things that would suggest an ouster,
nor was there a mention of any desire on his part
to get involved in other ventures,
(like a start-up to build a PCjr for $100 retail ?).
There was no mention of medical problems, either,
although that is my current guess.
The question for the net is, of course, why did Tramiel leave ?
-- Clay Phipps
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!fortune!phippsporter@inuxd.UUCP (J Porter) (01/27/84)
Other biggies at Commodore have left before Jack. He was kind of a last holdout - and with Commodore just celebrating their 25 aniversary from meager beginnings as a typewriter repair shop in Toronto, maybe he thinks that it's time to leave. Chuck Peddle (the brains behind the PET and VIC) left a couple of years ago to start his own company called VICTOR (sound familiar?). VICTOR computers are having a tough go of it in the US, but are supposedly doing quite well in Europe. Jeff Porter (inuxd!porter)_ AT&T Consumer Products Indianapolis