[News] Happy Birthday Petro! | ANN.lu |
Posted on 17-Apr-2003 12:37 GMT by Alkis Tsapanidis | 36 comments View flat View list |
Today is Petro Tyschtschenko's 60th birthday. Petro has seen four Amiga companies (Commodore-Amiga Inc. (1984-94), Amiga Technologies GmbH (1995-96), Amiga International (1997-2001) and Amiga Inc. since the year 2000 from which he was later retired) in over 20 years. Since then he has been at various Amiga shows, one of the last ones was the C= Show on which he presented the Pegasos and MorphOS.
You can read an interview with him here and here.
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Posted by smithy on 18-Apr-2003 14:57 GMT | In reply to Comment 12 (Don Cox): >Whatever the current politics, Petro kept the Amiga alive through the darkest
>period. We owe him a lot.
He also got us into the darkest period. If I remember correctly, back in 1994, it was him that approached Escom and got them involved, who outbid Commodore UK's management buyout... why didn't he join them instead? Things would be very different if David Pleasance had succeeded. |
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