Re: Inventor

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

nobody@wavetech.net (Greg Buchner) wrote:

>supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
>
>>I have no doubt that without Jobs, Apple Computers would
>>ever have came to be.  However, it is a fact that Jobs
>>contributed NOTHING to the hardware itself.
>
>Actually, I do believe that Jobs was responsible for the Apple II
>having a case...Wozniak very likely at the time would have been
>happy continuing to sell just the motherboard.  Jobs thought they
>should sell something that looked "professional".

Nope.

With the Apple II, the idea for an ABS plastic case came
not from Jobs but from the investor guy (can't remember
his name) that Jobs managed to pull on board and who
provided the initial monetary support to get Apple Computers
going.

By the way, do you know why Apple Computers is
called Apple?  It seems (according to an old IIe manual
that I have) that Wozniak and Jobs had a Fictitious
Name Statement, a document for naming the business
between them and were sitting around eating apples
trying to think up a name.  They couldn't.  They were
eating apples.  So they put down Apple Computers.