Pearly Gates

[j4]

Oh, and, I may have to hand in my Dedicated Follower of Apple card after this, but thanks are due to spyinthehaus for pointing me to this. OMG I <3 g33k boys!!!

Off to re-read Pirates of Silicon Valley slash now.

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[offensive-mango.livejournal.com]

Holy cow.

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

But that sweater, darling!

[j4.livejournal.com]

It's the preppy ones you have to watch, y'know.

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

Heh! ButI could still take them in a knife fight.

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

Unbelievable! Gates strikes like a ninja with a 5 1/2" floppy, before reclining to admire his death-dealing handiwork.

[brrm.livejournal.com]

Ooh, there's a card?
(Note to self: need more Apple geek t-shirts/badges/other paraphernalia. Maybe.) I've told you about Susan Kare t-shirts already, haven't I?

Early iSteve pictures are much better, surely? ;-)
Perhaps not.

[j4.livejournal.com]

You had told me about Susan Kare t-shirts, but I had lost the link, so thank you! There isn't really a card, but you can have a Grappler card or something similarly useless from the Apple ][ if you want to convert that...

iSteve is indeed sexy, but, well, non digna sum.

[addedentry.livejournal.com]

Goodness, I didn't expect to see P.J. O'Rourke hanging out with those freewheeling anarchohippies at Apple.

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

anarchohippies

I think you mean anarchocapitalists; and O'Rourke fits in fine if you think of it that way.

[besskeloid.livejournal.com]

They deserve each other.

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

Chill, dood.

[besskeloid.livejournal.com]

I am. I just don't like anybody.

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

Admirably democratic, but, y'know, kinda dumb...

[besskeloid.livejournal.com]

Iaiaian, I think you've taken me, well, mindlessly literally.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Take it outside, guys!

[ewx.livejournal.com]

eargh.

[lnr]

me: "have you seen these?"
rjk: "yes, once was *quite* enough"

Bluescreen No Sucky Sucky

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

*snigger*

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

What is Mark E. Smith doing lounging over that 8086 system?

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

snork

[brrm.livejournal.com]

And, as has been pointed out in the original thread:



:-)

[j4.livejournal.com]

Ye-es, there seemed to be some controversy over that, on the grounds that the Mac came out in '84 but the picture is allegedly '83. My guess would be that the picture's "circa 1983" is actually more like 1984, but you may know different -- when were prototypes available? Would Bill have been likely to have one?

God, that sleepy smile of his is really freaky when you can only see a corner of it like that. I think I've gone off him now.

[brrm.livejournal.com]

It's quite possible he had a prototype - folklore.org implies they were planning to give a standalone prototype to M$ in the autumn of 1981.

This page on folklore.org is an interesting read, too.

But the upshot is yes, M$ would have had several prototypes before release in order to develop software.