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Growing the 8 Bit Generation - Kickstarter

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In the works for quite awhile, the creators of this documentary video have started a 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!



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There's a new preview trailer at



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

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I am pleased to say that the Kickstarter has made its goal!

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As updated on their Kickstarter page,

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

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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".

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rbernardo wrote:I am pleased to say that the Kickstarter has made its goal!

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That's awesome, congratulations. So that was a while ago, how did you spend the money?
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So are they not going to make this available for purchase online? I purchased another kickstarter funded documentary - "The Death of Superman Lives: What Happened?" - and that worked well. I'd like to see this one too.
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I'd sure like to see this... will it ever be available for home viewing?
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