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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."
Further proof towards geniuses are normally mad.
I'm going to be a billionaire!
Speaking of The Woz, I kind of wish he would install his office web cam again... One wonders if he took it down because it caught him surfing porn one too many times...
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Steve Ballmer with better fashion sense.
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I was working as a sales rep in a Silicon Valley computer store in the early 80's. I knew the Woz and many other notables (I sold 3com their first 100 PC's). One day Woz's mother came into our store, looking for a joke present for the computer geek son who had everything geeky he could want. I sold her a bottle of "Bug Off" - anti-static spay for his monitor! ... :-)
Yep, would you rather be (a) uber successful but smelly, nasty, humourless and loveless, or (b) less successful but regularly bathed, kind, funny and loved?
Of course this is slashdot so I should offer option (c), unsuccessful, smelly, nasty, humourless and loveless.
Read Pynchon.
Yeah, I guess that explains why Ballmer followed Jobs around like a bipolar chimpanzee, repeatedly insulting and dismissing Apple products on Monday and paying legions of engineers to try their best to copy them on Tuesday.
Yeah, Jobs and Ballmer, two peas in a pod.
Just one question: were you dropped on your head as a child?
I thought it was going to be a memo about how to improve the snoozefest that is soccer/futbol.
Let's see...
Nope, still not worth watching.
Of course this is slashdot so I should offer option (c), unsuccessful, smelly, nasty, humourless and loveless.
I have a perfectly good sense of humor, thank you very much.
The road to tyranny has always been paved with claims of necessity.
Bah.
Including a keyboard, case, and power supply.
computers for sissies that can't handle a soldering iron.
What's next--put a program in rom so you don't hae to key it in???
humbug
Hawk
According to iHistory 2.0, Jobs did.
Apple is working on remotely deleting iHistory 1.0 to improve your history experience.
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I sold her a bottle of "Bug Off" - anti-static spay for his monitor! ... :-)
Was his monitor at risk of getting pregnant?
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I think you mean he COULDN'T have cared less.
No. It's part of a quote and has become mainstream because of frequent use.
The quote is "I could care less but I honestly don't know how" - with a few variations.
Since we are are becoming increasingly allergic to writing long sentences this one
is used so often the original has been all but lost.
If you look closely at the document, you can see where he erased "Wozniak" and wrote "Jobs"...
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