4 Jul
2012
4 Jul
'12
6:31 p.m.
> Visionary in product design, management, and
marketing?.. you must have
> never heard of NEXT computer.
On Wed, 4 Jul 2012, Toby Thain wrote:
I own a couple. Were you actually around in the
'80s?
I hung out in the wrong circles!
I played with a pre-release Lisa (being used to develp Berkeley
SmallTalk); I never touched on after that.
I played with a pre-release NeXT; I never touched one after that.
I never touched an Apple///, although I gave my nephew a ][+ with a ///
monitor on it.
Based on those two machines, it was obvious that Jobs wanted closed
systems.
Q: was he color-blind? (but otherwise good visual acuity) It seemed as
though he was not very enthusiastic about adding color to the screen!
Hey! I wonder if Apple was first to have a personal computer available in
case color "Raspberry"? If THAT is one of the requirements for "first
personal computer", . . . What were the color names for the iMac? (the
ADM3a look-alike)