Re: The Children of Woz

["Laine Houghton" <laine@@@intergate.com>]

Supertimer,
That was a wonderful acceptance speech.


http://tinyurl.com/l0uj
http://businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2003/tc2003085_3215_tc112.htm



"Supertimer" <supertimer@aol.com> wrote in message
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> You are obviously an Apple person.  I am a PC user
> but I too consider myself an Apple person.  But I
> am a devotee of the OTHER Apple.
>
> You see, there are two groups of Apple followers.
> The children of Woz and the children of Jobs.  You
> appear to be a child of Jobs.
>
> Jobs has always pushed for the "no assembly
> required" model.  You seem to view building a
> computer from the ground up as some kind of
> weakness.
>
> The children of Woz will disagree.  Apple was
> born from a garage around a computer that Woz
> built by hand.  He put the chips on the boards
> and coded the ROMs himself.  Then he sold
> his creation, the Apple I, and the world was
> changed.  The Apple II was a direct extension
> of the Apple I.
>
> The beauty of the Apple II was that it was NOT
> a fully packaged deal.  You had to configure it,
> was free to add a multitude of cards and
> indeed NEEDED to add a Disk2 card to make
> it fully functional.  When I got my first Apple
> IIe, I had to crack open the case to install the
> DuoDisk controller and Extended 80 column
> card.  Yes, not all of us are born with the gift
> of Woz, able to create computers from chips,
> but the experience of working with the IIe
> motherboard and expansion cards gave each
> Apple II users a feeling of direct link to Woz's
> creation.
>
> Now the children of Jobs slams the PCs for
> being so configurable.  Indeed, makes it seem
> like the fact that so many PCs are built by
> end users who select their own components
> is a flaw.  But this is not the weakness of
> PCs as Jobs sees it.  It is the very strength
> of the PC, the same strength that Woz'
> Apple II computer had.  YOU as the user
> decides.  I did this with my IIe, creating a
> very unique configuration.  I did this with my
> IIGS, pushing it far the limits the IIGS
> motherboard could support, exanding it with
> the best third party hardware I could find.
> And every time I build a PC, assembling my
> AMD processor, Crucial memory, motherboard
> with chipset and design of my choice, getting
> into the guts of the hardware and bringing a
> new computer system to life, I reach connect
> with my experience of owning an Apple II
> computer.
>
> The PC is the computer the Apple II would
> have become had it been allowed to continue,
> not the Mac.
>
> Yes, you can buy a G5 cheaper than the Multia
> was, being a child of Jobs.  But I, being a
> child of Woz, can assemble an Opteron
> system with motherboard, case, memory,
> video, and sound of my choosing for less.
> Jobs has succeeded in killing off the Apple II
> and erased remnants of its past success but
> he has not extinguished the spirit of the Apple II.
> Every former Apple II user who now builds and
> uses PCs knows this.