Folklore.org - History of Mac

[Doctor Q]

In A Message For Adam, we learn that Adam Osborne said, to Apple employees, "Go back and tell Steve Jobs that the Osborne 1 is going to outsell the Apple II and the Macintosh combined!" and that Steve Jobs said, in a return message, "the Macintosh is so good that he's probably going to buy a few for his children even though it put his company out of business!"

Wondering what happened after that? Read the Wikipedia article and find out! I wonder if Osborne had kids and if they ever got Macintoshes?

Edit: More research shows that Osborne married and divorced twice. He died in March 2003, leaving his first wife, Cynthia Geddes, and their three children, Marc, Paul, and Alexandra Osborne, and his second wife, Barbara Burdick. Hey Marc, Paul, and Alex - do you have Macintoshes?

 

[virividox]

nice site. stories were good tooo sigh all the backbiting, lets just hope it doesnt all fall apart again

 

[JimA4Media]

The Mac Folklore site

I just found the Folklore site this week, and this discussion about it this week also.

A couple of former Apple employees and myself put together another AppleLore history site ourselves at -

http://apple.computerhistory.org if you haven't seen it yet.

It was done with Frontier and Manila, which go way back in Macintosh history.

I really like what Andy Hertzfeld did with Python and his FolkLore software. His stories are really good also. It would be nice to see everyone involved with Macintosh development to contribute to these sites to record for posterity, the great history of these machines.

Jim Armstrong

 

[idkew]

Originally posted by SiliconAddict
Jobs is either:
1. A full blown psychopath
2. Or is just a complete and total arrogant ***hole.

My comp sci teacher in HS worked at apple with the newton. He said Jobs was an ass. He would say to B, "a called you an explicative" and then go over to A and say, "B called you (the same) explicative".

he had/s an interesting way of motivating people.

 

[hob]

Ok, ok - I know I'm about 12 months late with this post, but I've been reading Folklore.org for about an hour now...!

It's really interesting, but what does get me is how much Microsoft relied on Apple back in the old days... It makes me think that in some ways Steve Jobs could have done with a calmer right-hand man so that he would piss off Bill Gates (and many other Apple employees) so much. I think that the fact that Gates disliked Jobs so much was probably one of the main reasons that Windows appeared in the first place.

Then again, OS X probably wouldn't exist today if windows wasn't around - competition breeds innovation...!

Hob

 

[Mechcozmo]

Does it mention the story of how Steve Jobs lied to Woz about the amount of a large contract sale and cheated Woz out of his share of the split? This was at a time when Jobs and Woz were struggling and Woz was doing all of the engineering and design work.

I think this is the story that provides the most insight into Job's character. Woz now thinks so too. It hurt him bad after he found out years later.

It did, but it is an interesting insight to how Jobs thinks. His reasoning was "If you buy something for $0.50 and some guy wants it for $2, sell it to him for $2 because that is what it is worth to him."

I got that quote out of Apple History, a book that is very very good IMO.
Makes sense, but it isn't nice... of course, does this mean that Steve can cut the prices on the Power Macs? 'Cause if he can...

And the contract was an Atari contract for Pong I believe. 44 chips or something-- very good...

 

[MacNeXT]

Steve Wozinak has his own site too. He answers a lot of questons, interesting to read. He seems like a really nice guy.

www.woz.org

 

[Doctor Q]

Steve Wozinak has his own site too. He answers a lot of questons, interesting to read. He seems like a really nice guy.

He is. I know from secondhand experience (mutual acquaintances). He has a good sense of humor, sends jokes to friends, gets to voice his opinion without needing to convince everyone, and doesn't have to work under constant pressure running Apple as certain other Steves do.

 

[wdlove]

It is always interesting to look back at history. A chance to see that one change could have made today a very different world. I suppose that's the reason that the two Steve's got along because opposites attract. Our current Steve and Bill are just too much alike.

 

[Platform]

Nice site for Apple history but hasent it been around for a while thouht I had seen it before

 

[hob]

Nice site for Apple history but hasent it been around for a while thouht I had seen it before

Yeah - sorry for the confusion - I just ressurected a 12 month old thread...!

Hob