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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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