Re: Steve Jobs created the Apple II??????

[Gregory Weston <uce@splook.com>]

In article <1114958807.172851.323670@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
 "tolsen64" <tolsen64@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I was reading an article in the August 25, 2005 edition of Computer
> World an interview with John Markoff, author of a book called "What the
> Doormouse Said".  On page 44 of the magazine it says:
> 
> Q:  One of your recurring themes is what you call the fault line
> between the profit motive and the conviction that information should be
> shared freely.  Did that tension affect the early development of the
> PC?
> 
> A: It was so much a part of stuff that happened at the MIT AI lab and
> later at the Stanford AI lab and later at the Homebrew Hobbyist Club.
> It was the spark that set off the computer industry.  [Steve] Wozniak
> designed the Apple I just to have a computer to share with his friends
> at the Homebrew club.  Steve Jobs understood there could be a market
> for that and created the Apple II.  You can see the tension in the
> relationship between Jobs and Wozniak, and it was writ large in the
> club.

"Created" has several common meanings. At least one of them applies to 
Jobs' relationship to the II.

G

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