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

Post by paulcole » Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 11:28 AM UTC

contrarian1234 wrote: post #37

baxtr wrote: post #29

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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…

yeah, i don't wanna shit of steve jobs. I'm sure he reflects on stuff. (though this thing seems to suggest.. he needs to reflect on some real basic human stuff..) I'm sure you can find some cute quotes from Bill Gates too. It's just not really what he's known for just out of pure curiosity.. what's the context of this? He wrote a poem.. to email to himself? and.. how did he get access to his private emails? I can't t…

Post by Thorrez » Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 11:38 AM UTC

ahoka wrote: post #54

themafia wrote: post #28

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.

The title was editorialized and not accurate. These are two separate coins celebrating innovations in their respectable states.

Post by ada1981 » Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 11:40 AM UTC

Post by throw101010 » Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 11:50 AM UTC

vanderZwan wrote: post #33

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…

> I then made myself laugh by trying to imagine a depiction of Bill Gates in the same pose That is funny, although nothing will ever top Deborah Feingold's 1985 photoshoot where he lies on his desk and flirts with the camera

Post by throwup238 » Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 11:55 AM UTC

rkomorn wrote: post #76

redeux wrote: post #70

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$2 bills aren’t rare at all. You can walk into your local bank and get a stack of them anytime, if you’d like.

Okay, awesome point. Meanwhile, in my 25 years of living in the US (NJ, SoCal, and NorCal), I can count on one hand the number of times I've come across them "in the wild". I started collecting them in 2004 by keeping every one I ran into in person and I now have: 3.