The thing that was "conceived" was the enterprise that became Apple computer.
What was brought into being, possibly with the aid of some substance, was the
synergistic union of the existing technologies into a concept that allowed them
all to be rolled into one and marketed effectively. You can drone on all you
like about the eclectic nature of the operating system and the hardware, but
the fact remains that something was brought into being that previously was
spread over a variety of devices and platforms. The conception of something is
clearly greater than the sum of its parts.
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> On 17 Apr 2014, at 10:54 am, Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 12:58:49PM -0700, meekerdb wrote:
>>> On 4/16/2014 1:12 AM, Kim Jones wrote:
>>> The Apple Macintosh computer - conceived by Steves Jobs and
>>> Wozniak in 1974 while stoned on cannabis.
>>
>> What exactly was "conceived"? The mouse - from Xerox park? The OS,
>> a single-user form of Unix? Color; the Amiga already had it? The
>> combined monitor/processor?
>>
>> Brent
>
> Yeah - I think we've already dealt with it being the Apple computer
> being conceived in 1974, not the Mac (which came much later, around
> '82 or '83 IIRC, as a reaction to the expensive Lisa computer they
> were then trying to produce).
>
> On your other things - the mouse was invented in the '60s - I think at
> Xerox PARC IIRC. The original MacOS (up to and including MacOS 9) bore
> no relationship to Unix. Unix came to the Mac with the second coming
> of Jobs in the late '90s. The first Macs were back and white - the
> first colour Mac I saw was in 1986. PCs with colour monitors appeared
> around the same time, and as you mention, the Amiga was around by that
> time.
>
> As for the original Apple computer being conceived whilst Jobs was
> stoned - any evidence?
>
>
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