Yep. I about fell off my barstool when I first heard about that. (sorry...too soon?)
On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 9:03 AM Jay Maynard <jaymayn...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not so sure about Kildall...anyone who snubs a business meeting with > IBM to go flying (a worthy endeavor in and of itself) isn't businessman > enough to compete with Jobs and Gates. > > On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 3:05 AM Wayne Bickerdike <wayn...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Very interesting if one-sided interview. He gives Steve Wozniak very > little > > credit although Woz really was the inventor and Jobs the salesman in the > > partnership. > > > > I read Sculley's autobiography many years ago (From Pepsi to Apple). It > > doesn't describe events quite the same way. > > > > Nevertheless, good that it has surfaced at a time where nobody gets sued > > for defamation. > > > > After I left IBM in 1979 I wrote some applications on the Apple II. It > was > > a challenge and from an electrical engineering point of view, it was poor > > with a weak power supply that ran the CPU, Floppy drives which caused the > > screen to wobble when operating. > > > > At the same time Apple were turning out the IIE, there was a host of > other > > nicer systems, such as the Cromemco System 3 and Altos 8000 which ran > CP/M > > and MP/M and had a more robust construction. > > > > It was a shame that Gary Kildall died so young, he would have been a > great > > competitor for Jobs and Gates. > > > > On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 9:28 AM Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > > > > > A friend shared this with me and I thought it was just extraordinary. > It > > > is not "mainframe" but his comments on what happens when the marketeers > > run > > > a tech company will resonate with many of us. It’s a fairly long read. > > It’s > > > a transcript of a long interview done for a TV show – only a few > minutes > > > were actually used – by Bob Cringely, and thought to be lost. Steve > Jobs > > > was at the time (1995) running NeXT, which he was to sell to Apple a > > month > > > later. It is a fascinating read. > > > > > > https://sameerbajaj.com/jobs/ > > > > > > Charles > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > > > > > -- > > Wayne V. Bickerdike > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > -- > Jay Maynard > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
