I don’t like Mac programing
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Well i’ve been interested in computers since my dad first bought a 386 and at the time it was the most up to date thing available. I never knew much of the history of computers (well not the time of the movie was based). I mastered the BASIC language (seems like ages ago) and have moved on to much more advanced languages.I’m sorry i do tend to drag on. But i just want to say i don’t like mac programing but i love the hardware and from what i understand your the man behind it and i just want to say that I can’t express in words what i think you’ve done for the world and inderectly for me. So thank you for your genius. I just want to ask you if you’ve had an active part in the designing of the new macs. and if you ever had any idea that computers, software, and the internet would ever amount to what it is now.Thank you on behalf of me and everyone at www.archaic.net (still getting out the kinks) 🙂
Woz
I’m glad that you appreciate the Macintosh hardware, but you’re wrong to credit me in any way for it. My hardware design talents were applied to the Apple I and Apple ][ computers and related peripherals. This occured long ago. It was the basis for Apple’s start and fame. The Apple ][ kicked off the personal computer recognition, and legitimazed the market. Although I was the sole logic designer and programmer and ‘inventor’ in this sense, the contributions of others, primarily Steve Jobs, were critical to how this computer struck the world. Without a nicely packaged product in an attractive, acceptable plastic case that said “I’m OK in your home” this product would have died like the other hobby computers for Nerds. Apple was successful not just because of a great piece of hardware but because of the right communications and the complete product (including manuals and ads and our employees and priorities) the world got the message that it was time to change a lot of things in our lives. Steve Jobs truly deserves the visionary credit here. The Macintosh came about in later years and it was truly Steve’s project. There were actual hardware and software engineers that did the equivalent of what I’d done on the Apple ][ but I was not among them. At that time I’d returned to college and sponsored some huge rock concerts. (Just to set the record straight for you)