Pair of Twiggys

[geneb]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2017, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:

>    > From: geneb
>
>    >> When people decided Steve Jobs had become a god?
>
>    > Right about the time that whole "computer for the rest of us" started...
>
> Yes, of course: nobody had thought of a cheap personal computer before him.
I'm going to assume you're being sarcastic. :)

> Although I suppose you might have been talking about the software. I mean,
> without that whole display/windows/menu/mouse thing he copied from 
> Xerox, to allow ordinary people to use a computer, where would we be?

Fixed that for ya. :)

> Look, I fully admit that Steve Jobs was a _very_ sharp person who had a
> _tremendous_ influence.
>

Bah, he was an ego-driven trinket salesman.  His trinkets quit being any 
good after the IIgs. :)

g.


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