Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

[regnirps@aol.com (Regnirps)]

I'll let you folks who wish there had been more sense to the IIgs --> Mac
transition on some inside dope.

About the time of interest two things happened. Jobs had a falling out with Jef
Raskin, the human interface guru, (they had been inseperable for a long time)
and sent him of with a couple of stoner missfits to work on whatever he wanted.
Jef started his Mac project to explore GUI ideas that dated rom his 1967 thesis
adn are only sloghtly sim9lar to the current Mac.

Steve Wozniak had a very bad airplane crash when he overlaoaded his twin with
friends and ran off the end of the runway at Santa Cruz, nearly killing his
wife and suffereing a head injury himself that put him out of the picture.

Jobs wanted to do something of his own that Steve W was not part of and with
Woz out of the picture he noticed that Jefs little group was on to something
new and different. He took the project over and poured on the coal. Thus, a
discontinuous transition from the Apple II line to the Macintosh. There is
nothing to do with marketing or internal planning, just ego.

Charlie Springer