Working Apple-1 Computer, and Jobs' Leather Bomber Jacket and Other Apple Memorabilia Going up for Auction

[mikethemartian]

LOL, how many of you had to use cursive recently and got stuck remembering how? I just kept squiggling!

Except for my signature I might have a little trouble.

 

[mikethemartian]

As someone of that generation - I grew up with computers, BBS', early [public] internet - I am not happy about what I see. It's possible that I am just getting old (41 now...). Also technology is getting... boring imo, everything is so serious...

What I liked about the early 80s was that there were several platforms competing at the time.

 

[Kabeyun]

I will be bidding on the jacket.

 

[mi7chy]

It's not an Apple I but I'm content with my Apple II since it has graphics whereas the former was just text.

 

[aknabi]

This is great. I love Steve’s handwriting. People don’t write like that anymore. Also, the bomber jacket is so dope.

Hmmm, interesting as SJ and I have almost identical handwriting... enough so that mutual people we knew commented on it... another interesting thing is that our personalities were/are also quite similar.

 

[jouster]

It's Mike Markkula, not Mark.

 

[yaxomoxay]

It's Mike Markkula, not Mark.

It’s actually Armad Markkula!
(Good catch)

 

[OverTheHill]

It’s truly amazing what these guys were able to do with so little. Even more amazing I’m using an iPad today that leaves that thing in the dust. All in the span of a few decades.

 

[kagharaht]

1984 Macintosh guy here. Yes I feel extremely old. lol Seeing the Macworld image just brings up wonderful memories. Imagine opening up and using that Mac back in 84 for the first time. That kind of first time feeling was kinda similar to the first iphone... Seeing that cover brings about an air of melancholy and happiness at the same time.

 

[Ubele]

What I liked about the early 80s was that there were several platforms competing at the time.

My first "real" job out of college in 1983 was with a company that made accounting software. I had to test the software for bugs on a variety of platforms. I think there were five, but all I can remember are the IBM PC, Apple II, and DEC Rainbow. I was thrilled to finally be making enough money to buy my first computer: a KayPro II running CP/M. I was an aspiring writer, and moving from a typewriter to a word processor was life changing.

 

[ThunderSkunk]

Would you mind sharing some examples, I share the character and would prefer to avoid a life of ruin and misfortune.

Sure. Don’t work in a culture where the most aggressive and selfish people are allowed to claw their way to the top and are rewarded with most of the wealth and all of the power until they are running the place like an extension of their own ego. Don’t work in a culture where the people who have no idea how the product works, who the customers are, or why the company exists end up running the place like their own personal magical money tree. Don’t enter into partnerships because it’s better than nothing and hand everyone your best ideas and decades of ip because you’re sure eventually they’ll see the light, and all be in it for the same idealistic reasons, and totally not sideline you, run off with your work the first chance they get, cash it in, + burn your reputation to discredit you before you can make a public stink, leaving you looking for work in used car sales instead.

I could go on all day. Basically choose another country to live in, or accept that you will lose everything, and anything you don’t, the lawyers will get eventually anyway.

 

[JahBoolean]

Sure. Don’t work in a culture where the most aggressive and selfish people are allowed to claw their way to the top and are rewarded with most of the wealth and all of the power until they are running the place like a physical manifestation of their own ego. Don’t work in a culture where the people who have no idea how the product works, who the customers are, or why the company exists end up running the place like their own personal magical money tree. Don’t enter into partnerships because itks better than nothing and hand everyone your best ideas and decades of ip because you’re sure eventually they’ll see the light, and all be in it for the same idealistic reasons, and totally not sideline you, run off with your work the first chance they get, cash it in, + burn your reputation to discredit you before you can make a public stink, leaving you looking for work in used car sales instead.

Basically find another country to live in.

I lucked out by not living in the US ... might have developped another conscience had I grown up in this system though.

Thank you for your input.

EDIT: Good to know that to succeed in the US cultivating my inner sociopath would be a benefit.