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Vintage Steve Jobs footage on Apple (1980)

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Re: Vintage Steve Jobs footage on Apple (1980)

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Post by dabent »

It's something to see how people asked "What we've got right now is just fine, VisiCalc runs fast enough. Some of the database stuff runs fast enough. What are we going to do with this extra awesome power?" and what Jobs' response was.

He wanted to use that power to get that one-on-one interaction go smoother, which is what exactly it look like he did, up to the iPad.

It's also interesting that he mentioned the possibility of World War III, which was indeed on people's minds at the time.

Re: Vintage Steve Jobs footage on Apple (1980)

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Post by famousactress »

We attract people on the basis of an opportunity to work your butt off and get it done right, and see it get out the door without getting all screwed up.

I wish someone had said this out loud in my presence a long time ago. It's always been the most important thing about my satisfaction with employment, but I honestly hadn't really 100% understood how important it was to me until working at my current gig (some 12 years into my career).

But yeah. That. Exactly that.

Re: Vintage Steve Jobs footage on Apple (1980)

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Post by akamaka »

Fantastic! I highly recommend watching the bit starting from 2:30. It goes against the myth of Steve Jobs as having a magical talent for envisioning finished products.

He says that when they started out: -They had no idea what people would use these things for -Designed for 6 months and finally built their first computer -All their friends wanted one, but it took 40 hours to build and debug a single machine -They spent all their spare time helping their friends build computers -So they decided to print circuit boards and sell them, to cut down assembly to 5-10 hours -They scrounged up $1300 to have a circuit board laid out -One day, when Jobs was out selling circuit boards, he met someone who wanted to buy 50, but insisted that the machines be fully assembled -And so on...

Quite a different story than the usual version, which portrays Jobs as a natural genius of knowing exactly what people want before they knew themselves.

Re: Vintage Steve Jobs footage on Apple (1980)

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Post by lazerwalker »

I love at 19:50 when he's talking about diversifying Apple's product line to have a bunch of different computers that each have a different emphasis in interaction. Not only does it sound like he's describing a business model that lends itself to creating something like the iPad, but he even uses the exact same car/truck metaphor he ended up using to describe the difference between the Mac and the iPad.

Re: Vintage Steve Jobs footage on Apple (1980)

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Post by johnx123-up »

akamaka wrote: post #13

Fantastic! I highly recommend watching the bit starting from 2:30. It goes against the myth of Steve Jobs as having a magical talent for envisioning finished products. He says that when they started out: -They had no idea what people would use these things for -Designed for 6 months and finally built their first computer -All their friends wanted one, but it took 40 hours to build and debug a single machine -They spe…

   Liberated some parts from HP
What is the meaning of it? Copying? or?

Re: Vintage Steve Jobs footage on Apple (1980)

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Post by buro9 »

famousactress wrote: post #12

We attract people on the basis of an opportunity to work your butt off and get it done right, and see it get out the door without getting all screwed up. I wish someone had said this out loud in my presence a long time ago. It's always been the most important thing about my satisfaction with employment, but I honestly hadn't really 100% understood how important it was to me until working at my current gig (some 12 ye…

I've managed to do that throughout my career... until my current position. And not shipping, let alone not shipping quality, has been the biggest hit on my morale.

For me, quitting the day job to return to being my own boss is very much about re-focusing on shipping quality. It's less about the chance to be rich, and more about a chance to feel proud in what I've accomplished.

Job satisfaction is such an undefined term, but this is a big part of that definition for me.

Re: Vintage Steve Jobs footage on Apple (1980)

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Post by mixmastamyk »

akamaka wrote: post #13

Fantastic! I highly recommend watching the bit starting from 2:30. It goes against the myth of Steve Jobs as having a magical talent for envisioning finished products. He says that when they started out: -They had no idea what people would use these things for -Designed for 6 months and finally built their first computer -All their friends wanted one, but it took 40 hours to build and debug a single machine -They spe…

Like Jobs, I hope I'll have a bit more insight at age fifty than at age twenty.

Re: Vintage Steve Jobs footage on Apple (1980)

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Post by ncoats »

johnx123-up wrote: post #16
akamaka wrote: post #13

Fantastic! I highly recommend watching the bit starting from 2:30. It goes against the myth of Steve Jobs as having a magical talent for envisioning finished products. He says that when they started out: -They had no idea what people would use these things for -Designed for 6 months and finally built their first computer -All their friends wanted one, but it took 40 hours to build and debug a single machine -They spe…

Liberated some parts from HP What is the meaning of it? Copying? or?

stealing, copying, duplicating... Steve said, "Good artists copy, great artists steal. We've always been shameless about stealing great ideas."
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