Re: Jobs returns to Apple

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

J. L. Walters (bird@MCS.COM) wrote:
: In article <2129817181-961222014900@rook.wa.com>,
: 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.

: Steve Jobs did not create the Apple ][, Woz did. Steve was the
: marketing, idea, friend of Woz guy. This isn't to diminish his place
: in history, just to put it in perspective.

: As to his creation of the Mac, I'd have to agree that he was the
: driving force behind it, but not the inventor of as in the same sense
: as Woz was of the Apple ][.

So, Joe...
Would you go so far as to say that Jobs was the one who went to PARC, saw
the Star project, and was smart enough to buy the rights and hire the
project team that actually created the Lisa and Macintosh?  In
broadcasting/filmmaking parlance, one might say that Jobs then "produced"
the Macintosh.  Wozniak, on the other hand, "directed" (to use the same
analogy) the Apple ][.

I'm not "up" on my Apple history, but that sounds reasonable to me.  Am I
close?

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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