Re: Woz interview

[Roy Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

Robert McAllister wrote:

> Doede wrote:
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> "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).
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> Then again maybe I'm just nuts.

Not nuts, but I think you missed Woz's point. In context, I think the fun he
was referring to was the fun in creating the II, and, perhaps, the fun
people had in exploring the II. Macs and PCs are too complex (esp. the OS)
for much "tinkering" types to accomplish much. The II was a hacker's
computer, that begged for people to open it up, and dig into it, push it,
expand it. That spirit of adventure isn't really possible with OS X and XP.
Linux.... maybe.....

Roy

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