Michael Tomczyk was instrumental in creating the public image of the Vic and helped to create the initial batch of first party software and literature... He even came up with the Vic 20 name.
Another particularly interesting fact is that he was close with Commodore boss Jack Tramiel. He even wrote a book about it. This book (sadly, long out of print) is certainly an interesting read. It's not your run of the mill biography. It's written in a playful and sometimes whimsical maner. It's a personal account of the early days of what Tomczyk calls the Home Computer Wars. And war it was!
Another particularly interesting fact is that he was close with Commodore boss Jack Tramiel. He even wrote a book about it. This book (sadly, long out of print) is certainly an interesting read. It's not your run of the mill biography. It's written in a playful and sometimes whimsical maner. It's a personal account of the early days of what Tomczyk calls the Home Computer Wars. And war it was!
The 1980s
The book describes the way Commodore and Jack worked and captures the atmosphere of the times well giong into some detail about the birth of the Vic 20 (and other machines) and the though processes of those involved. It spans the US, Europe and Japan - truly for the masses not just the classes!
I have read the book twice and I'm now reading it a third time and I'm enjoying it now as much as I did the first time through. It certainly makes a change to reading all the revisionist Apple fanboy guff out there!
Though out of print for years there are a couple of PDF version floating around the interwebs. As for an official (read: legal) version Michael Tomczyk mentioned in passing in a recent in Scene World interview that he's at least thought about doing an ebook version. Here's hoping... :)
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