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j4 ([personal profile] j4) wrote2005-01-18 09:27 pm
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Pearly Gates

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

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

[identity profile] offensive-mango.livejournal.com 2005-01-18 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Holy cow.

Image

[identity profile] hoiho.livejournal.com 2005-01-18 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
But that sweater, darling!

[identity profile] j4.livejournal.com 2005-01-18 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
It's the preppy ones you have to watch, y'know.

[identity profile] hoiho.livejournal.com 2005-01-18 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh! ButI could still take them in a knife fight.

[identity profile] strange-powers.livejournal.com 2005-01-18 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Unbelievable! Gates strikes like a ninja with a 5 1/2" floppy, before reclining to admire his death-dealing handiwork.

[identity profile] brrm.livejournal.com 2005-01-18 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] j4.livejournal.com 2005-01-18 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] addedentry.livejournal.com 2005-01-18 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Goodness, I didn't expect to see P.J. O'Rourke hanging out with those freewheeling anarchohippies at Apple.

[identity profile] hoiho.livejournal.com 2005-01-18 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
anarchohippies

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

[identity profile] besskeloid.livejournal.com 2005-01-18 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
They deserve each other.

[identity profile] besskeloid.livejournal.com 2005-01-19 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
I am. I just don't like anybody.

[identity profile] hoiho.livejournal.com 2005-01-19 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
Admirably democratic, but, y'know, kinda dumb...

[identity profile] besskeloid.livejournal.com 2005-01-19 11:22 am (UTC)(link)
Iaiaian, I think you've taken me, well, mindlessly literally.

[identity profile] j4.livejournal.com 2005-01-19 11:36 am (UTC)(link)
Take it outside, guys!
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[identity profile] ewx.livejournal.com 2005-01-18 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
eargh.
lnr: Halloween 2023 (Default)

[personal profile] lnr 2005-01-18 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
me: "have you seen these?"
rjk: "yes, once was *quite* enough"
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Bluescreen No Sucky Sucky

[identity profile] hairyears.livejournal.com 2005-01-19 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
*snigger*

[identity profile] burkesworks.livejournal.com 2005-01-19 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
What is Mark E. Smith doing lounging over that 8086 system?

[identity profile] hoiho.livejournal.com 2005-01-19 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
snork

[identity profile] brrm.livejournal.com 2005-01-19 08:44 am (UTC)(link)
And, as has been pointed out in the original thread:



:-)

[identity profile] j4.livejournal.com 2005-01-19 11:38 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] brrm.livejournal.com 2005-01-19 12:01 pm (UTC)(link)
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.