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Re: Apple Legacy Recovery CD
In article <20050919230302925+1200@News.Individual.NET>,
Roger Johnstone <rojaws@orcon.net.nz> wrote:
> In <1127098103.129852@irys.nyx.net> Kirk Mitchell wrote:
> > Smohn Jith <robwiles@optonline.net> wrote:
> >
> >: Why would anyone report it? What could someone possibly have to gain?
> >: I'm so glad that the Apple II line is still firmly in the cult of
> >: Jobs instead of Woz.
> >
> > I don't know. Other stuff has been reported to Apple and nothing been
> > done. I doubt that Apple even reared it's head over this image. I
> > could be wrong. I've been wrong before. Once. B-{)
> >
> > Woz created. Jobs forsaw the ride he could get by latching on. I
> > guess leeches have their places.
>
> I think that's a bit unfair. Let's not forget that if it wasn't for this
> 'leech' there would never have been an Apple Computer, Inc. or any Apple
> computers. Steve Jobs certainly had some issues (although he's
> apparently learnt a lot and mellowed in the last 20 years) but he was
> the driving force behind the creation of Apple and the Apple II.
Right. After all, Woz would have been perfectly happy selling the Apple
II as a bare board. Jobs was the one who pushed for a case and a
'finished' product. Despite all the stuff he's done that people don't
like, he was responsible for a lot of the 'spit and polish' at Apple.
Greg B.
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