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Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Innovations $1 coin

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Re: Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Innovations $1 coin

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Post by FloorEgg »

contrarian1234 wrote: post #17

weird design for steve jobs.. without context it looks like the depiction of some spiritual leader (which maybe is a bit funny given the early apple fanbase). I get he was a bit of a hippie, but that's not exactly his claim-to-fame > His posture and expression, as he is captured in a moment of reflection i dont associate "reflection" with him. not to disparage him in the slightest, but its just not in the top ten of…

And then you made me laugh as well.

Re: Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Innovations $1 coin

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Post by themafia »

Why Steve Jobs and not the Apple II? Or even the iPhone?

Alternatively why not Seymour Cray instead of the Cray-1?

Or why not use one side for the inventor and the other side for the invention?

Jobs sitting there in an empty field just throws the whole set for me.

Re: Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Innovations $1 coin

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Post by baxtr »

contrarian1234 wrote: post #17

weird design for steve jobs.. without context it looks like the depiction of some spiritual leader (which maybe is a bit funny given the early apple fanbase). I get he was a bit of a hippie, but that's not exactly his claim-to-fame > His posture and expression, as he is captured in a moment of reflection i dont associate "reflection" with him. not to disparage him in the slightest, but its just not in the top ten of…

From: Steve Jobs, sjobs@apple.com

To: Steve Jobs, sjobs@apple.com

Date: Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 11:08PM

  I grow little of the food I eat, and of the little I do grow I did not breed or perfect the seeds.

  I do not make any of my own clothing.  I speak a language I did not invent or refine.  

  I did not discover the mathematics I use.

  I am protected by freedoms and laws I did not conceive of or legislate, and do not enforce or adjudicate.  

  I am moved by music I did not create myself.  

  When I needed medical attention, I was helpless to help myself survive.

  I did not invent the transistor, the microprocessor, object oriented programming, or most of the technology I work with.

  I love and admire my species, living and dead, and am totally dependent on them for my life and well being.
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