Journal drinkypoo's Journal: OK now look 6
I am in as much awe of Jobs' influence as the next guy, but we're talking about a company that under his watch set itself up as the guardian of morality. And we have people writing whole articles about how the 1984 commercial was the truth, man. It's clear that The Onion has it right. Jobs was a technological visionary, but he was also a holier-than-thou asshole. I am not glad he's dead. I'm not even sure I'm glad he won't be helming Apple. I am sure that he doesn't deserve worship any more than any of the rest of us flawed carbon units.
It has been a little over the top, hasn't it? (Score:2)
To hear the talking heads on the boob tube go on about what he "invented", you'd think it was like Edison trying eleventy zillion different filament materials for the lightbulb all by himself 'til he found the one that didn't burn out right away.
If they mentioned Woz at all it was with no sense of how crucial he was to Apple's creation as well.
And of course no mention of the guy who already had the iMac design ready to go when Jobs came back to Apple.
Love the Onion link.
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Apple products hit a particular note of liberal chic, without even bearing the low level of political content that implies. Smug self-satisfaction, and the ability to choose art that matches your sofa, is not revolutionary.
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Damn, I've got to get a matching sofa?
That does it, I'm going back to PCs!
I'm kidding. Except for the partition scheme on my TiVos, the only thing Apple I've got is an old IIe for which I've never had software.
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Ahh, that was a nice machine. I've had a whole bunch of macs over the years (and a ][+ for a while) but now all I have is an SE. I also have a disk with the code and demos for a Sega game called What's My Story that I bought at the flea market in Santa Cruz, I'd like to get that to a good home someday. I think my SE has 6.0.something, and it's got a Radius accelerator and/with video card in it as well. I don't really boot it, but I am prepared in case I need to prop a door.
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What I'd really like is to get the color monitor repaired. Affordably. There's an 8 amp internal fuse blown, so I suspect the horizontal output transistor is gone, at least.
It had an RCA jack input, so I tried feeding it video from a VCR (and later a TiVo and analog cable box).
Worked great. (or so I thought) For at least a year, maybe it was 2.
I found out later that, unlike other early microcomputers that were designed to use your television as the video monitor, the IIe's video output was the same 60Hz
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I have any number of gravitationally implemented watercraft motion impediments spanning many decades and several segments of industry.
Some time back I made the decision that I didn't want to move tons and tons of computing equipment. Over the years I've owned probably literal tons of computing equipment that I've thrown or given away including a whole host of Apollo DN/3000s and /4000s, 4 IBM RT/PC 135s, an IBM P90 the size of a dorm fridge with a mainframe card in, and so on. Right now the only actual classics I own are the SE and a POWER1-based RS/6k server I haven't even tried to IPL yet.