Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

[Jay]

In article <3522B7B9.552E1E69@on-line.de>, Ole says...
>
>> Apple was already working on the GUI and the Lisa when they were invited
>> to Xerox's Palo Alto site to look around.  Apple had someone working for
>> them who had done a term paper on a GUI.  What they got out of Pal Alto
>> was just a better idea of how to implement some things.
>
>That's not what my books say.
>
>Ole
>

 Anyone watch Triumph of the Nerds on PBS? You can read the transcript here.
 http://www-hep.physics.uiowa.edu/~bacus/TriumphOfTheNerds.html
Rather entertaining historical overview.

Here is a snip regards Jobs/Mac/GUI/PARC...

Steve Jobs had co-founded Apple Computer in 1976. The first popular personal
computer, the Apple 2, was a hit - and made Steve Jobs one of the biggest names
of a brand-new industry. At the height of Apple's early success in December
1979, Jobs, then all of 24, had a privileged invitation to visit Xerox Parc.

Steve Jobs:
"And they showed me really three things. But I was so blinded by the first one
I didn't even really see the other two. One of the things they showed me was
object orienting programming they showed me that but I didn't even see that.
The other one they showed me was a networked computer system...they had over a
hundred Alto computers all networked using email etc., etc., I didn't even see
that. I was so blinded by the first thing they showed me which was the
graphical user interface.
 I thought it was the best thing I'd ever seen in my life. Now remember it was
very flawed, what we saw was incomplete, they'd done a bunch of things wrong.
But we didn't know that at the time but still though they had the germ of the 
idea was there and they'd done it very well and within you know ten minutes it
was obvious to me that all computers would work like this some day."

It was a turning-point. Jobs decided that this was the way forward for Apple.

Jay.