Marcus Aurelius: He wasn't big on networking with other systems either.

He wasn't big on networking at all. The first Mackintosh, which he led the design, didn't have any modem or ethernet port. It was meant to be standalone, period.

In this interview he's championing networking but he was clearly a very recent convert and hadn't seen the benefit before.

This reminds me of the guy who invented the TV. From what I have been told his vision of the TV was to bring education and culture into peoples homes. Instead we have the Kardashians.

You mean to say people, when presented with facts and new developments, might change their minds? That's crazy talk!

Ha. Did they even have those cordless phones with LCDs on them yet? Seems inconceivable that at a time, phones were entirely a voice device.

ongbok: This reminds me of the guy who invented the TV. From what I have been told his vision of the TV was to bring education and culture into peoples homes. Instead we have the Kardashians.

The Kardashian's are a culture, sadly.

Something over there: ongbok: This reminds me of the guy who invented the TV. From what I have been told his vision of the TV was to bring education and culture into peoples homes. Instead we have the Kardashians.

The Kardashian's are a culture, sadly.

In the same way that mold is a culture, yes.

It's weird because in all of the time since Steve Jobs death I've come to this odd conclusion that he was merely human. Not as intrinsically evil or back hearted as his detractors would point out, and not the engineering genius and visionary as some of his proponents like to holler. When it comes to Jobs I come down on the side of detractor when it's time to take the piss, or troll, but it seems he is just like a lot of people in the world, a human being, no more no less. Lots of good points, some pretty negative points but all in all just a human being as subject to good and bad as any one else in the world.

With that in mind can he just go away as 'news' anymore?

That sneeze part at 32:25 has lots of animated .gif potential.

He kinda of has that "But Aliens..." vibe going on the video placeholder image.

/too lazy to post a screenshot

In 1990 I was writing FORTRAN on a DEC VAX system, poorly.

I also got laid a lot more then. Not because of the FORTRAN but because I was 22 and single.

Flint Ironstag: He wasn't big on networking at all. The first Mackintosh, which he led the design, didn't have any modem or ethernet port. It was meant to be standalone, period.

You act like other home computers in 1984 came with ethernet and modems; by and large they didn't. Those were addons, and they did exist for the Macintosh. A modem specifically would have connected to the serial port labeled 'Modem'. AppleTalk itself was introduced in 1984 as well.

Ghastly: Nobody will need more than 640K, 16 MIDI channels, and a 40 meg hard drive will probably never be filled.

If you gave me a 40MB drive today, I probably couldn't fill it. (Probably because I couldn't find enough files smaller than 40MB to put on it.)

Plus, none of this takes us any closer to the more important question of whether or not Steve Jobs liked Rush.

ongbok: This reminds me of the guy who invented the TV. From what I have been told his vision of the TV was to bring education and culture into peoples homes. Instead we have the Kardashians.

The majority of television is crap, sure. The majority of the Internet is crap. The majority of published books are crap, too. It's kinda like saying Gutenburg invented the printing press to spread education and culture through literacy, but instead we have books with Fabio on the cover.

The majority of everything is crap. That's how we know it's crap.

marcpen: In 1990 I was producing a hippy mag called Encyclopaedia Psychedelica on a home-made 286 and an Amstrad 1640 with Xerox Ventura Publisher, networked together by their serial ports and the '$25 Dollar Network' software, and blasting swirling fractals onto club walls with a scan-line converter to turn the EGA video signal into VHS-PAL. It was also the year I first came across a Mac, and I was not terribly impressed with it, considering what I could do with my own kit

I 1990, I was in the Navy and we were running XENIX on IBM XT machines with dual floppies and dual 10mb hard drives. I think we had a couple of DOS machines as well that booted off floppies and we used for word processing.

Good times.

jonny_q: ongbok: This reminds me of the guy who invented the TV. From what I have been told his vision of the TV was to bring education and culture into peoples homes. Instead we have the Kardashians.

The majority of television is crap, sure. The majority of the Internet is crap. The majority of published books are crap, too. It's kinda like saying Gutenburg invented the printing press to spread education and culture through literacy, but instead we have books with Fabio on the cover.

The majority of everything is crap. That's how we know it's crap.

I like this. I'm going to quote it on facebook.

Hey! Hey! 16K! What would that get you today? You need more than that for a letter. Old school ram packs were much better.

Hey! My Atari 400 came with 16K stock...and then I added the 48K upgrade card..soldering wires... ahh the good old days...

Ahh yes, Jobs, the amazing, forward-thinking visionary.