15 Jul
1997
15 Jul
'97
3:15 a.m.
Ward Griffiths and/or Lisa Rogers wrote:
On Sat, 12 Jul 1997, e.tedeschi wrote:
This is true but it doesn't stop the fact that he was very mcu AGAINST
continuing the Apple II production. He and his collegues even set up a
separate group sporting a black flag with all the usual death simbols to
testify that they regarded themselves as "pirates" against the
"approve"
estabilishment of the Apple family (read series II and later Lisa).
I think you have got the story (dare I call it
history?) WRONG. Steve
Jobs, when was trying to put the Lisa and later the Macintosh on the
market, was very much AGAIST the Apple II. His mate Steve "The Woz"
Wozniac was the one who designed and sustained model II.
That conflicts with my memories. Remember, the Lisa didn't appear for
six years after the Apple II. Jobs is the one who talked Woz into
redesigning his homebrew system for production. Far from being against
the Apple II, that machine was what kept Jobs eating long enough to fail
with the Lisa and barely break even with the early Mac systems. (We
needn't discuss his more recent "successes" -- even though I thought the
NeXt cubes were pretty neat).
"Success" is a VERY subjective word. He is
a successful man allright but
is he happy?
--
Ward Griffiths
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within
the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." --Claire Wolfe
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