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World Cup Memo Written By Steve Jobs Going Up For Auction
New submitter Dega704 writes with an excerpt from El Reg: "Before Steve Jobs came up with the iPhone or even the Apple II, he designed paddles for ball-flipping games at Atari where the scruffy 19-year-old was employed to improve game design. Sotheby's New York will auction off a document dating from Jobs's time there: a 1974 report that Jobs wrote for his boss suggesting ways to improve arcade game World Cup. According to Jobs' biography, his Atari days are most notable for his clashes with colleagues, who he considered to be 'dumb shits'. He was made to work night shifts there partly because he was in a phase of refusing to wash and so he apparently smelt bad, causing complaints from his co-workers. But Jobs obviously did some work at Atari too, with the document laying out his ideas for improving player experience. The typed four-page document includes three circuit designs in pencil and additional designs for the paddles and alignment of players defending a soccer goal."
Steve JOBS came up with the Apple II? I don't think so.
Further proof towards geniuses are normally mad.
I'm going to be a billionaire!
One of a kind! Snot rag that Steve Jobs blew his nose into at an organic food restaurant in 1979! Yours for only $200K! Suitable for framing!
He's venerated as a demi-god but like many high/over achievers he was also complete prick.
Sorry Steve.
Well, he may have come up with the design for the thing. After all, if a computer or a smartphone is simply a bunch of chips soldered, screwed or superglued together, then Apple would be selling iBoards and the iBerry Pi, instead of selling the iMac and the iPhone.
Next up is a set of pinball schematics drawn by an arrogant teenager who refused to take showers. Yours for only two million dollars!
Damn, it's only a memo about improving a video game? I thought it was going to be a memo about how to improve the snoozefest that is soccer/futbol. (Yeah, and here come all the non-Americans to talk about how superior it is to basketball/baseball/football. I don't care. Any game that ends in a 0-0 tie is not entertaining to watch.)
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
He was a social genius... he knew how to hack human brains and make them do what he wanted.
I'm out of here.
When I first came to Atari three months ago, I figured there must be some pretty smart people in this place. People that wanted to change the world a little.
But no.
Instead, I have to deal with bozos nonstop. Clowns to the left of me. Jokers to the right, I'm stuck in the middle with all of you.
Like the boss who told me that Pong was great the way it was, we just needed to add some fade-in fade-out transition graphics and add three-stripe color to the paddles.
BOZOS!
I just sat there, looked at him and said, Nam Myo'ho Renge Ku.
Now I'm off to put Wang and Digital Equipment Corporation out of business.
- Fake Steve Jobs
1974
how much can i get for a magazine he farted on once
Steve JOBS came up with the Apple II? I don't think so.
I think what they're crediting him with is the idea of refusing to wash. Why not, he is the chosen messiah of the Apple fanatic is he not?
An insightful Buddhist Mantra:
gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha
"gone gone, gone beyond, gone altogether beyond, O what an awakening (end)!"
It's ok, look around, most of the people you work with are pricks, your boss is....so are the people at the gym, in the super-market, and everywhere. So am I, and so are you, most likely.
Fact is, most people are pricks. So what?
Yes, but according to Apple fans Steve Jobs INVENTED being a prick.
Seems to me that's all Apple fans and employees ever do - claim that Jobs invented everything in sight and was a genius. Create a mythology around the company and the men. Everyone who knows no better and buys the product then feels like they're choosing creative genius over the mundane. How else do you sell inferior over priced walled garden shite by the ton?
Atleast when he was alive I could go months without ever hearing him mentioned and he only popped up every 10 months to show the new ipad or iphone to the press on stage. Now that he is dead I cant go anywhere without someone sobbing and masturbating at the same time about what a great and wonderful man he was as if he were jesus christ himself sent from the heavens to take us all into the wonderful eternal bliss of the afterlife.
Socities way of deifying someone just for being rich, famous or attractive is fucking disgusting. Far better people than him die everyday and no one gives a shit about them. Thousands of people die every year and we only seem to care about the ones who are rich or on magazine covers.
Fuck steve jobs.
I find it odd that, with his background is video games, the mac is not a more successful gaming platform.
To hear about a young man on a path to providing joy and happiness to millions, only to lose his way and become a business executive. Where did we fail you Steve. You clearly had the potential. Antisocial, poor hygiene, you had all the traits of a budding young geek. Then somewhere a terrible turn south. Perhaps we'll never know.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
"because he was in a phase of refusing to wash and so he apparently smelt bad"
Hmmm... Somehow that lessens my previous critique of his persona.
Still, he was greedy smelly. So he wasn't all good after all!
I see he was only marginally more people-friendly as an employee than as a boss.
It'd be nice if I could work from home, instead of having to come into the office to deal with all the dumb shits here. Night shift not required.
If you look closely at the document, you can see where he erased "Wozniak" and wrote "Jobs"...
Modern copyright is theft of culture from everyone and it retards the progress of the useful arts and sciences.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXJHip7Su5o (SFW)
What will it do?
Well except back then one had to be capable of welding parts together if one wanted to have a computer. Remember the Altair?