Re: Inventor

[Chad Choi Lin <chadlin@nyetcom.com>]

mairsil@my-dejanews.com wrote:

> In article <nobody-1112982251280001@pm-4-105.dynam.wavetech.net>,
>   nobody@wavetech.net (Greg Buchner) wrote:
> > In article <19981211224448.06165.00001317@ng43.aol.com>,
> > 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".
> >
> > >By the way, apparently Jobs and Woz are no longer
> > >on speaking terms.  Jobs witheld profits from initial
> > >Apple I sales and Woz found out this much later on.
> >
> > I never heard this...I do know that Jobs told Wozniak that Jobs
> > had received less money from an Atari job that Jobs brought
> > Wozniak in on...Wozniak wasn't concerned with the money, he was
> > just upset about Jobs lying to him.
> 
> Wasn't there something on PBS about this? I also seem to recall hearing that
> they're making a made-for-TV movie about this.
> 
> Ralph Glatt

Yes, it was a PBS documentary on the birth and evolution of the home
computer industry entitled "Triumph of The Nerds." However, the Apple II
and the Woz-Jobs partnership that started the Apple Computer company are
treated as little more than footnotes in the history of personal
computing, plus there's this inexplicable narrator by the name of
"Cringely" (reminds me of Guy L. Steele Jr.'s "Crunchly" cartoons
featured in The New Hacker's Dictionary) in the program.

As an alternative, I highly recommend the book "Hackers" by Steven Levy,
which truly does the Apple II justice in the way that it describes the
creative energy of the Homebrew Computer Club (which Steve Wozniak
belonged to and got a great deal of technical support from), the
engineering wizardry of The Woz himself, and the marketting savvy of
Steve Jobs (who deserves credit for making Apple Computer, Inc., a
reality). It also gives us an early glimpse of the sort of person Bill
Gates was and would become, via the story of Tiny BASIC.


Peace, Love, and Apple II Forever!
Chad Choi Lin
chadlin@nyetcom.com

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