Subj : Re: Meeting Michael Tomczyk
To   : Atreyu
From : claw
Date : Fri Oct 21 2022 07:44:56

On 20 Oct 2022, Atreyu said the following...
 At> Most people here likely love the C64... and thats great but for me it
 At> was the  freaking Vic-20. That was my first computer a long time ago.
 At> 
 At> Having that computer as a kid and making it do things it wasn't designed
 At> to do or whatever you could make work in 3k Ram with no sprites, no
 At> video modes,  nothing... *that* was what I loved. C64 and Apple 2e just
 At> spoiled it for me  and later the Tandy 1000 with its 640k.
 At> 
 At> Did you see the Doom clone for Vic20... un-freaking-believable.
 At> 
 At> Atreyu

Well he was the Father of the Vic-20 Had quite a few answers about it.  Like the 20 is because its a friendly number and wasn't as over used like 10 or 5. he said 100 would have been the next number option. In the end it was all for marketing reason. :D

It was great getting to meet him.  Thanks to all the BBS folks that showed up and represented the BBS community!  

He was a great speaker and I will rewatch it as soon as its on youtube.  I will also post it.  Amazing stories and great to hear what he has to say about his perspective at Commodore.  I even got to ask the one question I always wanted to and I was very surprised what the truth was. No spoilers I'll post the video when it is ready

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