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In 1984, Jobs and Wozniak Talk About Apple's Earliest Days
harrymcc writes: In 1984, Apple launched the Apple IIc computer. As part of its promotion, it produced a video with Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and other employees talking about company's founding and the creation of the Apple I and Apple II computers. Over at Fast Company, I've shared this remarkable, little-seen bit of history. It's full of goodies, from images of Jobs and Wozniak wearing remarkably Apple Watch-like timepieces to evocative photos of early computer stores.
From where Wozniak stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of Steve Jobs:
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
Because the Apple Watch has an incredibly dated, bland, boring design that looks like a cross between retro and a child's toy. Enough with the hype about the Apple Watch already -- the reviews have slated it for its terrible interface, poor apps and terrible battery life. Next topic, please?
"Oh, the people I fucked over back then...such good times," reflected Jobs.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
Bill Gates did the same thing, what's your point?
I worked at a Byte Shop in 1978-9 as their repair department. I was in high school. We sold Apples, TRS-80s, S-100 bus stuff, etc. The Apple was the most impressive machine, by far. It was apparent just from looking inside it, that the design was the way of the future.
The determined Real Programmer can write Fortran programs in any language.
"Ha, Bill Gates is a pussy!" responded Jobs. "That weak little pansy didn't even have the balls to deny his daughter's paternity and make her live on welfare."
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
why the fuck someone decided to put this fucking background music on top of this video ? same volume, chitty notes. why ?
Wow, this is old. I thought Slashdot usually ran a day or so behind, but 21 years!?
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Came away from that with fond memories of Defender, and that it's always more interesting to see what people do with the tech (the computer in a briefcase and other "redesigns") than what's released by a corporation.
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
"You asked me once," said Jobs, "what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world."
While there is plenty of hate thrown Apple's way in ./, it is always interesting to see some of the beginnings and seemingly ancient commercials for these tech companies that have been around the block. The nostalgia is strong - sort reminds me of the compaq story
Since a lot of your folks are too young to remember...
The watch Jobs is wearing appears to be an LED digital watch. Because LED displays drained the battery a lot quicker than LCD watches (which came later), you had to press a button to see the time. In retrospect, this is kind of a feature, because when the display was off the face was completely dark and mysterious. It was like Darth Vader's watch.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
I'm always astounded how someone as smart as Woz could hookup with an egotistic leech like Jobs.
Wow, you must have had low expectations.
Steve Jobs continues, "One more thing. I still had the balls to name my $10000 computer after her!. I'm awesome."
Back then, people could work for Apple and not have their wages purposely suppressed because they could not leave and work for another company (thanks Steve-a-roonie!)
Wow, someone really went out of their way to mention the iWatch!
>remarkably Apple Watch-like timepieces
Well, I guess they do have wristbands and faces. My bad...
Most linux users don't know this, but the man pages were named after Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris fsck'ing hates noobs!
and he knew somebody like Jobs could change the world., in part because Jobs was an egotistical leech and was also remarkably charismatic and capable.
I've read 3 different explanations of why VisiCalc was done on Apple first.
1. The dev TRS and Pets were tied up on other projects.
2. Jobs promised free hardware if they targeted Apple first.
3. Apple had more potential RAM ability.
I don't know which is true or if it's a combo. Either way, Apple would probably be dead if not for VisiCalc. VisiCalc sales gave Apple just enough money for R&D into GUI's (Lisa/Mac), and those were relatively slow sellers until desktop publishing kicked in.
Without the VisiCalc boost, Apple would probably fall short, and die with the rest of the early microcomputer makers (who got clobbered by IBM clones).
Table-ized A.I.