Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore International and a key figure in the early history of video games, passed away on Sunday at age 83.

A survivor of the concentration camps at Auschwitz, the Polish-born Tramiel emigrated to the U.S. in 1947 and started a typewriter business that evolved to make calculators and eventually computers.

Tramiel and Commodore launched one of the first successful personal computers, the Commodore 64, in 1982.

When he was forced out of Commodore two years later, he bought the consumer division of Atari, rescuing the iconic game maker from the video game crash of 1983 and pitting Atari's consoles against the home computers made by his former company.

[forbes]