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It's interesting to see that in such an early year, Jobs and Woz's offices are almost as far apart as they could possibly be in the building.
It's interesting to see that in such an early year, Jobs and Woz's offices are almost as far apart as they could possibly be in the building.
It's also interesting to see that the CEO and CFO shared an office, while some key engineers had private offices.
Wherever I've worked the engineering team always locked the CEO away from themselves because he's a huge distraction.
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It's also interesting to see that the CEO and CFO shared an office, while some key engineers had private offices.
It might have something to do with the fact that marketing people are on the phone a lot and engineers have to focus a lot. Wherever I've worked the engineering team always locked the CEO away from themselves because he's a huge distraction.
Sign of the times: three secretary/receptionists for a 20 person company. I suspect they were the only female employees, too.
Sign of the times: three secretary/receptionists for a 20 person company. I suspect they were the only female employees, too.
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It's because Woz always wanted to stay as an engineer, not as a manager. That's why Jobs and Markkula is one place while Woz near the software team.
You could also say, conversely, that Jobs placed himself next to Markkula instead of Woz, finding it more important to sit next to the VP of marketing than the chief engineer. I'm not making any judgements on the way they organized the physical space in the office. It clearly worked, after all, Apple in 1978 was on the precipice of an unprecedented success. I'm just interested in the way that the physical location of…
Sign of the times: three secretary/receptionists for a 20 person company. I suspect they were the only female employees, too.
Not true ( I don't think.) I know Susan Kare designed the icons, and she was working for Apple around the time of the Macintosh.
Susan Kare desiged the icons, as you say, but that was years later. In 1978, the Apple ][ was still only a year old itself.
The Macintosh isn't really that early in Apple history, for those of us who grew up with Apple ][s.
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It's also interesting to see that the CEO and CFO shared an office, while some key engineers had private offices.
It might have something to do with the fact that marketing people are on the phone a lot and engineers have to focus a lot. Wherever I've worked the engineering team always locked the CEO away from themselves because he's a huge distraction.