5 Jul
2012
5 Jul
'12
6:07 a.m.
On 04/07/12 9:31 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
Yes, he did. He was consistent about it.
Nonetheless, many of the systems he was responsible for allowed
expansion and extension. The trend has been towards closing this down,
reaching its obvious nadir in the iOS family. This is one reason I no
longer buy new Apple.
> Visionary
in product design, management, and marketing?.. you must have
> never heard of NEXT computer.
On Wed, 4 Jul 2012, Toby Thain wrote:
I own a couple. Were you actually around in the
'80s?
I hung out in the wrong circles!
I played with a pre-release Lisa (being used to develp Berkeley
SmallTalk); I never touched on after that.
I played with a pre-release NeXT; I never touched one after that.
I never touched an Apple///, although I gave my nephew a ][+ with a ///
monitor on it.
Based on those two machines, it was obvious that Jobs wanted closed
systems. Q: was he color-blind? (but otherwise good visual
acuity) It seemed as
though he was not very enthusiastic about adding color to the screen!
He also fought Jef Raskin over the issue of bitmap screens and
proportional fonts (according to Raskin's account, Jobs wanted a
character generator, but Raskin's humanist view eventually prevailed,
giving the Mac its crisp bitmap display and pretty typography).
Hey! I wonder if Apple was first to have a personal computer available in
case color "Raspberry"? If THAT is one of the requirements for "first
personal computer", . . . What were the color names for the iMac? (the
ADM3a look-alike)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IMac_G3_flavors.jpg
--Toby
