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.

Comments

[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.