Contents<\/p>
- 1<\/span> Where All Memories Go<\/a><\/li>
- 2<\/span> Foundation of Apple…<\/a><\/li>
- 3<\/span> Links<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n
Where All Memories Go<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n
I\u2019m not the most organized person on the planet. I have magazines piled everywhere, chargers coiling in the corners, and my phone seems to hate me and hide in the farthest nook possible. I could probably lose an elephant in my sitting room. They really should invent something so that your phone could answer your call, for when it\u2019s lost and \u201chere kitty-kitty\u201d doesn\u2019t work. However, they invented the fitness wristband instead, of all things!<\/p>\n
When cleaning up my apartment, I would just scoop my old MacBook up with everything else and shove it away onto the window sill or into the armchair. It\u2019s not that it weighs a ton, I just had no place for it. Every time I caught a glimpse of my old MacBook, I promised, I\u2019d do something with it. I had trusted the laptop with my photos, emails, and shopping needs. I had trusted it with pieces of my life, memories frozen in time, a glimpse here, a snap there, and then I completely forgot about it.<\/p>\n
My sad and forgotten MacBook is outdated, has scrapes and scratches, and I\u2019ve lost the Lightning cable somewhere. But my gran has picture albums, and my mom has piles of DVDs and boxes full of VHS tapes stacked somewhere in the attic. (Where you could lose an elephant and a tiger, by the way.) I\u2019ve got an account on iTunes and iCloud, and this old MacBook. It\u2019s not like I\u2019m going to pass it on to my grandkids. They\u2019ll have had brain implants by the time I leave this world.<\/p>\n
But, that\u2019s not the point. My point is: would I be giving away more than an old laptop? Or am I just imagining things?<\/p>\n
Foundation of Apple…<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n
SSteve Jobs met Syeve Wozniak at the Homebrew Computer Club, in a garage in California\u2019s Menlo Park. Wozniak had seen his first MITS Altair there, and was inspired by MITS\u2019 build-it-yourself approach to make something simpler for the rest of us.<\/p>\n
So, he produced the first computer with a typewriter-like keyboard and the ability to connect to a regular TV. Later, he christened the Apple I. It was the archetype of every modern computer, but Wozniak wasn\u2019t trying to change the world with what he\u2019d produced \u2013 he just wanted to show off how much he\u2019d managed to do with so few resources. Steve Wozniak\u00a0explained that \u201cWhen I built this Apple I\u2026 the first computer to say a computer should look like a typewriter \u2013 it should have a keyboard \u2013 and the output device is a TV set, it wasn\u2019t really to show the world that here is the direction it should go in. It was to really show the people around me, to boast, to be clever, to get acknowledgement for having designed a very inexpensive computer.\u201d<\/p>\n
It almost didn\u2019t happen, though. Wozniak told the Sydney Morning Herald, \u201cI was shy and felt that I knew little about the newest developments in computers.\u201d He came close to giving the Club a miss. But\u00a0he didn\u2019t. Then Steve Jobs saw the computer and recognized its brilliance. He sold his VW microbus to help fund its production. Wozniak sold his HP calculator, and together they founded Apple Computer Inc on April 1, 1976, alongside Ronald Wayne \u2013 now making Apple a 40 year old company!<\/p>\n
By the way, the name caused Apple problems in later years, as it came uncomfortably close to the Beatles\u2019 publisher, Apple Corps, but its genesis was innocent enough. Speaking to Byte magazine in December 1984, Wozniak credited Jobs with the idea. \u201cHe was working from time to time in the orchards up in Oregon. I thought that it might be because there were apples in the orchard or maybe just its fruitarian nature. Maybe the word just happened to occur to him. In any case, we both tried to come up with better names but neither one of us could think of anything better after Apple was mentioned.\u201d Wozniak built each computer by hand, and wanted to sell them for little more than the cost of their parts \u2013 at a price that would recoup their outlay if they shipped 50 units.<\/p>\n
But, Jobs priced the Apple I at $666.66, and inked a deal with the Byte Shop in Mountain View to supply it with 50 computers at $500 each. Byte Shop was going out on a limb, as the Apple I didn\u2019t exist in any great numbers, and the nascent Apple Computer Inc didn\u2019t have the resources to fulfill the order, nor could it acquire them. Atari, where Jobs worked, wanted cash for any components it sold him, a bank turned him down for a loan, and although he had an offer of $5,000 from a friend\u2019s father, it wasn\u2019t enough. In the end, it was Byte Shop\u2019s purchase order that sealed the deal. Jobs took it to Cramer Electronics and, as Walter Isaacson explains in\u00a0Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography, he convinced Cramer\u2019s manager to call Paul Terrell, owner of Byte Shop, to verify the order.<\/p>\n
\u201cTerrell was at a conference when he heard over a loudspeaker that he had an emergency call (Jobs had been persistent). The Cramer manager told him that two scruffy kids had just walked in waving an order from the Byte Shop. Was it real? Terrell confirmed that it was, and the store agreed to front Jobs the parts on thirty-day credit.\u201d”<\/p>\n
(Story based on History-of-apple-steve-jobs-what-happened-mac-computer-3606104\/#foundation<\/a>).<\/p>\n
Links<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
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