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Re: Woz interview
Robert McAllister wrote:
>
> Doede wrote:
>
> "Steve ends with: 'I really would like a chance to recreate the Apple II
> fun someday.'
>
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>
> I don't believe that same leap or high or whatever you want to call it
> as far as the personal computer itself is possible now. PC s are so
> universal now, mundane, not like back in the Eighties, or for those of
> you who got a real early start, the Seventies. Now it seems as though
> everyone has one, like toasters. Processors get faster and storage
> capacity increases, and someone is always finding a more efficient way
> to do things (except for Microsoft), but there doesn't seem to be the
> potential for that same "amazement" that at least I felt back in the
> Eighties when I got my //c (not that I was ever any kind of computer
> geek as you can tell from the questions I ask, but it was pretty cool
> back then).
>
> Then again maybe I'm just nuts.
>
Maybe both--maybe it was pretty cool back then *and* maybe you
are just nuts *also*...
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