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History Brush-Up (11/15/97)
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Aaaaand speaking of overviews, you know it's a slow news day when so many articles on the history or Steve Jobs and Apple start to surface. One of our favorites is this one from Computer Reseller News, which provides a nice recap of the legend of Jobs and Woz in the garage, hacking together the Apple I. And it uses our favorite word, "mercurial," which we have never, ever seen used to describe anything or anyone other than Steve Jobs-- yet we've rarely seen an article about Jobs that doesn't use the word at least once.

All of the best bits are included: how Jobs sold his Volkswagen for startup capital, the 700% annual growth rate, the bitter fallout with Sculley, and an in-depth look at the Reality Distortion Field®. It probably doesn't say much you haven't heard elsewhere, but in any case, it makes good weekend reading-- while the folks in Cupertino are plotting ways to shock us all next week.

 
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The above scene was taken from the 11/15/97 episode:

November 15, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

  • 181: It Goes With My Socks (11/15/97)   By now all you AtAT regulars are aware of Steve Jobs' affinity for the eMate 300, Apple's Newton-based laptop/PDA hybrid. And with good reason-- have you tried one of these things? They are really, really cool-- lighter than a standard laptop, with tons of battery life, and rugged as all get-out; since they're engineered for the K-12 market, they can sustain a four-foot drop onto concrete...

  • 182: Build-to-Order HTML (11/15/97)   Meanwhile, MacSpectre has posted a very nice overview of the Apple Store and the guts that power it-- Apple's (and formerly NeXT's) WebObjects. WebObjects formed the framework for the first and best-known online build-to-order store: that of buddy-buddies Dell...

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