Re: Jobs returns to Apple

[sheldon@atlcom.net (Sheldon Simms)]

In article <E2zFt3.6vG@boss.cs.ohiou.edu>, skaratso@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu
(Stavros Robert Karatsoridis) wrote:

> Paul Creager (wily@svpal.svpal.org) wrote:
> : Brian Hammack (brian.hammack@rook.wa.com) wrote:
> : : You have Steve confused with John Sculley.  Apple ousted Steve because
> : : they wanted John's direction, and Steve afterall was a hardass.  Steve
> : : *created* the Apple II and the Mac -- and in the physical sense at that.
> 
> : Jobs _killed_ the Apple II.  His push for the Mac let the Apple //e 
> : development languish, even though it's what buttered his bread.  And he 
> : certainly didn't create the Apple II, other than marketing ideas like the 
> : rainbow logo, etc.
> 
> Jobs did NOT create the rainbow logo. It was designed by a firm called
> Regis McKinna, I believe.

That is true. However Jobs insisted that the rainbow version, rather than
a simple two color verson, be put on every Apple II, despite the
added expense.

One interesting thing that Steve Jobs did contribute to the design of the
Apple II was the board layout. It was very common for printed circuit
board designs of the 70s to have wavy hand-drawn traces and chips put
wherever they fit. Steve Jobs is reported to have insisted that the
Apple II board have perfectly straight traces and have the chips lined
up in neat rows.

-Sheldon

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