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To: Swordmaker; tallyhoe; Krankor
Apple developed their windows GUI on their own with some ideas they bought from Xerox for $7 million in pre-IPO stock by observing what Xerox was doing at its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in two visits that totaled only 16 hours for six people. Apple took NO CODE and only observed.

Yes, he could be... [a jerk when dealing with subordinates]

... he thought he was sterile. But two years later he found he was not and claimed her... In fact the LISA computer is named for her...

There were a few early incidents where he was less than honest with Woz... In the case of Wozniak, the $600 Atari deal was more than made up by the fact that he made Woz a multimillionaire hundreds of times over. Woz was going to be happy with an "atta boy" from the members of the "Home Brew Computer Club" for making the Apple II. Steve turned it into the most valuable corporation in the world.


11 posted on 10/12/2011 3:07:54 PM PDT by Talisker (History will show the Illuminati won the ultimate Darwin Award.)
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To: Talisker

I hope the show discloses that Steve was inspired by his LSD experiences....Many of us, if we are candid, will reported life changing inspiration by the same catalyst in the 70’s. Jobs reported that his LSD tripping was among his top three most profound influences.


12 posted on 10/12/2011 3:30:16 PM PDT by mountaineer1997
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