Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

[Steve Jensen <sjensen@primenetyourknife.com>]

Regnirps <regnirps@aol.com> writes:
: I'll let you folks who wish there had been more sense to the IIgs --> Mac
: transition on some inside dope.

: About the time of interest two things happened. Jobs had a falling out with Jef
: Raskin, the human interface guru, (they had been inseperable for a long time)
: and sent him of with a couple of stoner missfits to work on whatever he wanted.
: Jef started his Mac project to explore GUI ideas that dated rom his 1967 thesis
: adn are only sloghtly sim9lar to the current Mac.

: Steve Wozniak had a very bad airplane crash when he overlaoaded his twin with
: friends and ran off the end of the runway at Santa Cruz, nearly killing his
: wife and suffereing a head injury himself that put him out of the picture.

: Jobs wanted to do something of his own that Steve W was not part of and with
: Woz out of the picture he noticed that Jefs little group was on to something
: new and different. He took the project over and poured on the coal. Thus, a
: discontinuous transition from the Apple II line to the Macintosh. There is
: nothing to do with marketing or internal planning, just ego.

: Charlie Springer

I was at a CUE conference when the LC was just released and the techs at
the Apple booth told me they had a GS-on-a-card finished. The IIe card
for the LC didn't impress me but LC's with GS cards would have been
a viable transition to Macs for my school district.  When Apple didn't
release the GS card it was obvious what the company's intentions were.
We bought pc's instead of Macs.  I still have 18 GS's in my classroom
though.

Steve Jensen