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real? Terrell confirmed that it was, and the store agreed to front Jobs the parts on thirty-day credit. Garage Band The Jobs house in Los Altos became the assembly point for the fifty Apple I boards that had to be delivered to the Byte Shop within thirty days, when the
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soldering himself. When they completed a board, they would hand it off to Wozniak. "I would plug each assembled board into the TV and keyboard to test it to see if it worked," he said. "If it did, I put it in a box. If it didn't, I'd figure what pin hadn't gotten into the socket right." Paul Jobs suspended"
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were able to build the boards more cheaply than we thought, because I got a good deal on parts," Jobs recalled. "So the fifty we sold to the Byte Shop almost paid for all the material we needed to make a hundred boards." Now they could make a real profit by selling the remaining fifty to their friends and Homebrew compatriots. Elizabeth Holmes officially"
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Seasons or Ritz-Carlton hotel. So Johnson sent his first five store managers through the Ritz-Carlton training
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smart call. To make the Apple II successful required more than just Wozniak's awesome circuit design. It would need to be packaged into a fully integrated consumer product, and that was Jobs's role. He began by asking their erstwhile partner Ron Wayne to design a case. "I assumed they had no money, so I did one that didn't require any tooling and could be fabricated in a standard metal shop," he said. His design called for a Plexiglas cover..
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stories involving the troubles in Northern Ireland, Morocco's war for the Spanish Sahara, and a ring of traders violating the sanctions against Rhodesia. He was exhilarated by danger. Once in Belfast he insisted that we go cover a demonstration, when I was quite content to stay at the bar of the Europa Hotel. He showed me that even though the street clashes might seem violent and bloody on television, just a half block away things were calm..
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a machine that could process and store data at a cost of only $2 per digit. (Atanasoff's machine could handle three thousand digits and cost about $6,000.)
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suggested it would be sometime in the second quarter of that year. At the first NeXT retreat back in late 1985, he had refused to budge, despite Joanna Hoffman's pushback, from his commitment to have the machine finished in early 1987. Now it was clear
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shop class used to be." The juxtaposition highlighted the shift from the interests of his father's generation. "Mr. McCollum felt that electronics class was the new auto shop." McCollum believed in military discipline and respect for authority. Jobs didn't. His aversion to authority was something he no longer tried to hide, and he affected an attitude that combined wiry and weird intensity with aloof rebelliousness. McCollum later said, "He..
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his wager. It would turn out to be a happy marriage,
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won his wager. It would turn out to be a happy marriage, one that lasted until death parted them
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at Atari, who designed Pong and hired Jobs. GIL AMELIO. Became CEO of Apple in 1996, bought NeXT, bringing Jobs back. BILL ATKINSON. Early Apple employee, developed graphics for the Macintosh. CHRISANN BRENNAN. Jobs's girlfriend at Homestead High, mother of his daughter Lisa. LISA BRENNAN-JOBS. Daughter of Jobs and Chrisann Brennan, born in 1978; became a writer in New York
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delivered to the Byte Shop within thirty days, when the payment for the parts would come due. All available hands were enlisted: Jobs and Wozniak, plus Daniel Kottke, his ex-girlfriend Elizabeth Holmes (who had broken away from the cult she'd joined), and Jobs's pregnant sister, Patty. Her vacated bedroom as well as the kitchen table and garage were commandeered as work space. Holmes,
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uncommon around his son, Paul would impart some of his calm. "What's the matter?" he would say. "You got a feather up your ass?" In return he occasionally asked"
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number for my dial-a-joke service was 255-6666." Neither of them knew that in the Book of Revelation 666 symbolized the "number of the beast," but they soon were faced"
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Rupert Murdoch accepta d'ecouter la vision que Jobs avait de Fox News, une chaine que le P-DG d'Apple considerait comme destructrice pour la nation et dangereuse pour la reputation de son patron. << Vous vous plantez avec Fox News, lui dit-il au cours du diner. Il n'y a plus d'un cote les liberaux et de l'autre les conservateurs, la ligne de partage dans le pays, c'est entre ceux qui sont constructifs et les destructeurs, et vous avez soute..
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Perhaps the oddest meeting was when Dr. Dre came to visit Jobs at Apple headquarters. Jobs loved the Beatles
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His persistence baffled me. He was known to guard his privacy, and I had no reason to believe he'd ever
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The following year, students at Duke University and the University of North Carolina, which were not yet connected to the Internet, developed another system, hosted on personal computers, which featured threaded message-and-reply discussion forums. It became known as "Usenet," and the categories of postings on it were called "newsgroups."
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That's a big thing with an invention," Eckert later said, contrasting their machine with Atanasoff's. "You have to have a whole system that works."
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I wanted to buy it because I was really into computer graphics," Jobs recalled. "I realized they were way ahead of others in combining art and technology, which is what I've always been interested in."
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Tribble said that Jobs would not accept any contrary facts. "The best way to describe the situation is a term from Star Trek," Tribble explained. "Steve"
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rethink things. There was something about the design that lacked purity, he felt. "Why"
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to itself." Jobs went home early that day to mull over the problem, then called Ive"
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The Innovator's Dilemma.)
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living like Jesus or seeing the world as Jesus saw it," he told me. "I think different religions are different doors to the"
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a cette incroyable capacite a inventer des gadgets dont on n'a pas besoin et sans lesquels, brusquement, on ne peut plus vivre.
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All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it." But he immediately proceeded to emphasize the role that "pure reason" and logical deductions play. He conceded, without apology, that his success using tensor calculus to come up with the equations of general relativity had converted him to a faith in a mathematical approach, one that emphasized the simplicity and elegance of equations more than the role of experience. The fac..
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A few days after he unveiled the iPad in January 2010, Jobs held a "town hall" meeting with employees at Apple's campus."
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love it when you can bring really great design and simple capability to something that doesn't cost much," he said as he pointed out the clean elegance of the houses. "It was the original vision for Apple."
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year. At the first NeXT retreat back in late 1985, he had refused
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Syrian-born graduate student in Wisconsin who became biological father of Jobs and Mona Simpson, later a food and beverage manager at the Boomtown casino near Reno.
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receiver from Hallicrafters, the most sophisticated radios available. Woz spent a lot of time at home reading his father's electronics journals, and he became enthralled by stories about new computers, such as the powerful ENIAC.
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They got an apartment in the Sunset District facing the Pacific, just south of Golden Gate Park, and he took a job working for a finance company as a "repo man,"
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Look, Steve, you're my best friend, and Apple is your company. I'll do whatever you want.
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beach bum with a bushy beard, wild hair, goofy grin, and twinkling eyes named Lee Clow, who was the creative director of the agency's office in the Venice Beach section of Los Angeles. Clow was savvy and
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sometimes tearing up at the memory, that once they were married,
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Lightning bolts went off in my head," according to Jobs. "I remember running into the house, crying."
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
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Creo que las distintas religiones son puertas diferentes para una misma casa. A veces creo que la casa existe, y otras veces que no. Ese es el gran misterio.
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who handled Apple in the early Macintosh years. MICHAEL EISNER. Hard-driving Disney CEO who made the
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cassette tape, no mouse, and minimal graphics. Unlike Jobs, he
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