the tramiel family were are they now ?

[broncoman]

what ever happened to the big jerk are they still alieve ?anyone know ?

[atarifan49]

what ever happened to the big jerk are they still alieve ?anyone know ?  

 

 

I think the family still lives in the Silicon Valley area.

 

A jewish friend of my mother's goes to a synagogue in San Jose that once in while Jack Tramiel shows up at.

 

Sam was president of a internet company called Xoom. Don't know whatever happen with that.

 

Leonard is probably still living in the valley. He has an obscure web site where he talks about his astronomy hobby and his sons have web pages off of it.

 

Garry, no clue.

[Noble Kale]

Xoom was a free homepage style company, that got bought out. (Not sure who bought it though)

[Warren]

Xoom was bought out by NBC when it was still expanding it's Internet presence and was rebranded NBCi. It lasted about a year, and was then closed down.

 

You can still find lots of linkrot pointing to Xoom pages, tho...

[Albert]

Sam was president of a internet company called Xoom.  Don't know whatever happen with that.

 

Interesting, I had no idea Sam had anything to do with Xoom. Have any of these guys ever publically talked about their experience with Atari after the fact? It would be interesting reading their views of what transpired at the company.

 

..Al

[Atari 7800.com]

Oh man now I feel rather queasey... before I got into Atari 7800.com and all taht fun stuff I had about six different websites up on Xoom.... and I'm not much of a Tramiel fan either.

 

As far as their whereabouts... well I'm actually studying into this right now. Jack is retired with his wife Helen and I'm pretty sure that they still live on their palacial estate in San Jose. I'm not positive as to what Sam is doing but I was told that Leonard was last seen working at an investment firm out in New York City about two years ago.

 

Hope this sheds some light for you guys..

[atarifan49]

Sam was president of a internet company called Xoom.  Don't know whatever happen with that.

 

Interesting, I had no idea Sam had anything to do with Xoom. Have any of these guys ever publically talked about their experience with Atari after the fact? It would be interesting reading their views of what transpired at the company.

 

..Al

 

 

Only thing I heard was someone (can't remember who) had been in contact with Leonard and was trying to talk him into releasing the encryption key for the Jaguar.

 

He wouldn't let it go.

 

Other than that they've been tight lipped about the subject.

[+-^CrossBow^-]

The encryption key has been released...so that isn't a problem anymore. Well..at least..the software that was used to encrypt the data was released. Also the stuff for the Lynx and the 7800 as well. I think I kept all of this stuff archived on one of my sets somewhere....

 

I do remember that the software ran on Amigas in Workbench...so you basically have to have an Amiga setup to encrypt you games for use in the systems.

 

[atarifan49]

The encryption key has been released...so that isn't a problem anymore.  Well..at least..the software that was used to encrypt the data was released.  Also the stuff for the Lynx and the 7800 as well.  I think I kept all of this stuff archived on one of my sets somewhere....

 

 

I know. I was the one who discovered the Jaguar universal cartridge header and helped John Hardie with figuring out how to use the 7800 encryption software for the ST. Carl Forhan helped out with the Lynx encryption software for the Amiga.

 

The key I'm referring to that needs to be found is for the Jaguar CD. Have the software, have the public key, just need the private key.

 

And I have to say for the record that whoever did the PC program that generates the 7800 authentication code for cartridges did a wonderful job. That program is so easy to use and is very, very quick. Trying to do the same thing using the offical authentication code generator on the ST is slow and clunky compared to the PC one. My hats off to the person who developed it!