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Discovery Channel to Air Steve Jobs Documentary with Mythbusters Hosts
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These guys do okay with their myth busting, but reflecting on Steve Jobs' life?
This is like getting the corner hot dog vendor to step in for Wolfgang Puck.
I'll read the book that comes out the week after this so called documentary.
Jeez!
These guys do okay with their myth busting, but reflecting on Steve Jobs' life?
This is like getting the corner hot dog vendor to step in for Wolfgang Puck.
I'll read the book that comes out the week after this so called documentary.
Jeez!
Also South East Asia. I searched for the show on Discovery, but I didn't find Mythbusters with iGenius title. I think I saw "Dodge a bullet" and something else...
Right because in the late 70's and early 80's there were computers everywhere none of which were Apples....
I'm personally happy to see them hosting it. These guys are outstanding TV personalities and noted Apple aficionados. I've seen them both in more serious modes and there is nothing to be concerned about. They will do the show and more importantly the man justice.
yep. i'm watching it. I have feeling this will be one of the better, more interesting documentaries!
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Will I be able to find this online within few hours after it goes live. I'm a long way in east Africa
Will I be able to find this online within few hours after it goes live. I'm a long way in east Africa
It depends on the definition of "commercially successful". While not really affordable by hobbyists, the HP 9830, IBM 5100, and Tektronix 4051 were all commercially successful BASIC-programmable personal computers that predated even the Apple I (the three came out in 1975 or earlier). The 4051 even had a display that did vector graphics. I had used all three before I had even heard of "Apple". And unlike the Apple, these were "all in ones" and didn't require an external display.
If you define a "personal computer" to be a computer that can be situated at ones office (no special air conditioning, power, or staff) then minicomputers, which basically started with the PDP-8 in the mid 1960's would also qualify. And we would also have to add the commercially successful Altair 8800 in 1975 that was basically the first hobbyist computer.
I'm sure Adam and Jamie will be great hosts. All three of them are inspiring in their own way, science or technology wise. Still I did not expect the Mythbusters hosts to be picked to do a documentary on Steve jobs' life. R.I.P Steve.
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Adam and Jamie, two of my heroes, doing a documentary on Steve Jobs, another one of my heroes. Genius.
This would have been a better host for the Steve Jobs doco.
At least Grant is a tech geek. And would understand it all.
Or maybe this:
Stephen Fry is a Mac Geek.
Or maybe this:
He did start up Apple with Steve.
Or maybe this:
He did design many things with Jobs.
Or maybe this:
He does respect what Jobs has done and was part of the same era of tech geekery Steve Jobs was.
Or maybe this:
The U2 iPod did exist.
Will add more here when they come to mind.
At least Grant is a tech geek. And would understand it all.
Or maybe this:
Stephen Fry is a Mac Geek.
Or maybe this:
He did start up Apple with Steve.
Or maybe this:
He did design many things with Jobs.
Or maybe this:
He does respect what Jobs has done and was part of the same era of tech geekery Steve Jobs was.
Or maybe this:
The U2 iPod did exist.
Will add more here when they come to mind.
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It's amazing what a person is able to come up with, after doing a 3-second Google search;
Taken from a MacLife interview in 2009.
Read my entire post please. Then comment again when you have read it all.
I just have some random suggestions. That's all.
Yes i know all what you said about Adam. I am a mythbusters fan. It's nice you said it so everyone knows. But in my opinion I feel others would have been better. Mind you that's just my opinion and others can feel free to disagree with it.