![]() During the 1960s, Tramiel created a manufacturing empire by focusing on typewriters and calculators before turning his attention to business computers in the 1970s. Born in Poland to Jewish parents, Tramiel suffered in Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War, eventually making it the United States – and a promising new life – in 1947. The story of the computer’s development, and its battle for supremacy with Commodore’s Amiga range, has since become the stuff of legend, with both playing their part in bringing home computing to the masses.Īt the heart of the Atari ST story is Jack Tramiel, a fearlessly hard-nosed businessman whose life was the embodiment of the American dream. ![]() ![]() When the computer music revolution finally did arrive in earnest, it was thanks not to a dedicated music-making machine but rather a personal computer: the Atari ST. Those with access to money and high-end studios could use the pioneering but cumbersome Fairlight CMI, while home enthusiasts with a Commodore 64 had a few very simple “tracker” style sequencers to choose from. Still, it was far from a mainstream pursuit. As the 1980s reached their midpoint, the idea of using computers to make music was gathering momentum.
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