[angkor]

I worked for a computer store in those days, and we had C-64 backorders for weeks before Christmas 1982. We were also a Commodore distributor, and the owner had big pull with Jack Tramiel (owner of Commodore).

So we finally got our shipment the last week before Christmas and if I recall we moved several hundred units in the course of a few days. It was madness.

[TC Rider]

We were also a Commodore distributor, and the owner had big pull with Jack Tramiel (owner of Commodore).

My favorite Tramiel story was the one where he went to visit one of the plants and entered through the loading dock. He saw a guy leaning against a wall inside.

Jack walked up to the guy, pulled out a pad and wrote a note instructing the company cashier to give him a severance check for $1000. Jack handed him the note, told him he was fired and to get his money and get out of his factory.

The guy was pretty happy about it all. He was a truck driver waiting to be unloaded.