We were kings of our machines
Question from E-mail
I am writing this on a 20th Anniversary Mac (one of the “fire sale models” from the Apple Store) and it is a wonderful machine. I also have an iMac in my other farm office. But the IIe was still the most fun I ever had xomputing, and it kept the books just as good as these two machines do.
Woz
I love that 20th Anniversary Mac. I think of it as a perfect college machine, with the computer, TV, radio, CD player and more (AV even) all in one sleek machine. I don’t know why, exactly, the ][e was so good to so many. I hear what you are saying all the time. I think that for a while, software was simple and we were kings of our machines. After the market was recognized as being very large, programs became immense. It became more of a contest to remember which menu something was in, than to do it yourself or make what program you had do the job you needed. It feels like the software is so good and immense now that it’s often more important than we, the people, are. I didn’t feel this way back in the early days. I can still feel that good now, but it’s less often, like when I’m writing a program for fun.