Growing the 8 Bit Generation - Kickstarter

RobertBe · Post by **RobertBe** » Sat Aug 22, 2015 3:55 pm

In the works for quite awhile, the creators of this have started the Kickstarter campaign. In the video there are Commodore luminaries, such as Chuck Peddle, Bil Herd, Al Charpentier, Andy Finkel, Joe Decuir, Michael Tomczyk, Jeff Minter, and in his last interview, Jack Tramiel!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/17 ... eneration/

34 days to go,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm

RobertBe · Post by **RobertBe** » Fri Aug 28, 2015 11:54 pm

There's a new preview trailer at

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/17 ... ts/1336268

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm

pixel · Post by **pixel** » Sat Aug 29, 2015 6:29 am

Al Charpentier!?!?!? Somebody found him? I guess you know what I'm thinking…

RobertBe · Post by **RobertBe** » Mon Aug 31, 2015 11:04 pm

As of today, the Kickstarter for the video has garnered almost 65% of its goal.

With 24 days to go,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm

RobertBe · Post by **RobertBe** » Thu Sep 03, 2015 10:52 pm

Hurrah! The Kickstarter has been successful!

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm

pixel · Post by **pixel** » Tue Sep 22, 2015 1:02 pm

Had the misfortune to watch yet another documentary about Apple vs. Microsoft. And, once again, not a single word about Commodore. Even as they must have been racked plenty by a company who sold the most home computers ever. I hope this one will change that for good.

orion70 · Post by **orion70** » Wed Sep 23, 2015 8:09 am

History is really written by winners

pixel · Post by **pixel** » Wed Sep 23, 2015 8:12 am

Crazy. That's what I just posted on FB. Winner's history must have a "best before" date anyway.

RobertBe · Post by **RobertBe** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 9:37 pm

As updated on their Kickstarter page,

"...the documentary will be ready for end of January/first week of February."

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm

eslapion · Post by **eslapion** » Thu Jan 14, 2016 9:23 am

pixel wrote:Had the misfortune to watch yet another documentary about Apple vs. Microsoft. And, once again, not a single word about Commodore. Even as they must have been racked plenty by a company who sold the most home computers ever. I hope this one will change that for good.

Tramiel and Commodore aren't the only ones that are excluded from these "Elitocumentaries".

The early 80s were a giant melting pot of various computer brands and types. Few mention the TRS-80 CoCos, or Model I-IV business computers, the TI-99/4a, Atari 400/800 and the weird stuff coming from europe like Sinclair, BBC Micro and Acorn.

For one thing, there was a much more defined line between home computers and business/personal computers.

For another you could actually buy a Commodore VIC-20 or 64 at most large department stores and find disk drives, expansions, games and even productivity software for these machines.

RobertBe · Post by **RobertBe** » Sat Feb 13, 2016 3:21 am

Yesterday, the one-hour, 39-minute documentary was released on-line for all Kickstarter backers! Wow! Very professionally done! It was great hearing from Jack Tramiel, Lenard Tramiel, Chuck Peddle, Al Charpentier, Jeff Minter, Bil Herd, Andy Finkel, Michael Tomczyk, Steve Wozniak, and more.

The documentary began with the calculator age and then expanded to the KIM-1 followed by computer developments in Apple, Commodore, Tandy/Radio Shack, Sinclair, and a little bit of Texas Instruments and Atari. Most of the emphasis was on Commodore with lots of content on the PET, VIC-20, and C64 (but no mention of the Plus/4 and C128, as those were post-Tramiel).

Technically, the sound balance was better than the preview, and Bil Herd gave a forceful narration instead of the unknown British person in the preview. However, I did catch three errors (!) with a video-editing placeholder which read, "Narrator".

Bonus -- there is a separate, 59-minute video entitled, "The Last Jack Tramiel Interview".

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm

Kakemoms · Post by **Kakemoms** » Sat Feb 20, 2016 2:37 pm

RobertBe wrote:Most of the emphasis was on Commodore with lots of content on the PET, VIC-20, and C64 (but no mention of the Plus/4 and C128, as those were post-Tramiel).

Ehm, the 264 (aka Plus/4) were released at CES in January 1984 by Jack Tramiel.

RobertBe · Post by **RobertBe** » Sat Feb 20, 2016 2:44 pm

Kakemoms wrote:Ehm, the 264 (aka Plus/4) were released at CES in January 1984 by Jack Tramiel.

However, Jack Tramiel did not follow through, because he left CBM at that time.

His last CBM machine,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm

Kakemoms · Post by **Kakemoms** » Sun Feb 21, 2016 5:42 pm

RobertBe wrote:
Kakemoms wrote:Ehm, the 264 (aka Plus/4) were released at CES in January 1984 by Jack Tramiel.
However, Jack Tramiel did not follow through, because he left CBM at that time.

Well the 264 line were essencially his doing, but they failed so miserably due to their poor specs. I remember when they were released.. it looked like someone trying to remake Apollo capsules after they made the space Shuttle.. Oh, wait a moment...

RobertBe · Post by **RobertBe** » Tue Mar 01, 2016 11:05 pm

The film, "Growing the 8 Bit Generation", has its first public screening at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 30, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View (South Bay area of San Francisco), California. For more information, go to

http://www.computerhistory.org/events/u ... 2016-03-30

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm

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