Today Marks the 45th Anniversary of Apple's Founding

[jlocker]

I remember the fall of 1997 and I was working for Apple for sales at retail stores, before the Apple stores and when Apple was hurting big time. I walked into a Office Max that were selling Apple Performa computers and They had in front of the store on a clearance table three Apple Performa 6400 units marked down to $80.

These were brand new systems and the model was only 6 months old and had 64mb of ram installed in them. The USB mouse and keyboard were worth the $80 that was in the box. At a original price of $3500, could not pass it up. Bought two of them, one for me and one for my dad. I use that Mac all the way up to my first PowerPC G4 system. That was the best deal I have ever had on a Mac, even the first 128k Mac, that was offered at 60 percent off the price in 1984 when you worked at a computer store servicing or selling Apple Computers. It was the same as a PowerMac 6400 so it had power for a home system.

 

[docbop]

Back when Apple was a really great company and community of users. No Woz' and his open computers POV. In the Taoist view you need Yin and Yang to be in balance and when Job pushed Woz out they lost their balance. The Apple Cult of old doing all sort of creative things with Apples. Now it's Apple zombie fanboys who think Apple is just company that makes status symbol devices.

 

[I7guy]

and nobody working at apple today had anything to do with it. They've inherited it.

Sure, they inherited it. That is what teamwork is all about. However, on Tim Cook's watch the number of customers, reach of Apple, products, services increase exponentially.

Now if you are believing the company just ran itself, and any fool could have stepped in to the CEO position and moved Apple along the path it is now on, that's another matter.