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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."
As a psychopath, he was excellent at identifying and exploiting them for personal gain.
Read Pynchon.
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.)
You mean, the majority of the world's population?
"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes" - Winston Churchill
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?
What the fuck have you ever accomplished in life? No, don't tell me, let me guess: not a goddamn thing...which is why you have so much energy available to hate on those who did and have achieved.
The only pond scum is you.
We need more chlorine in the gene pool.