On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 12:58:49PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: > On 4/16/2014 1:12 AM, Kim Jones wrote: > >The Apple Macintosh computer - conceived by Steves Jobs and > >Wozniak in 1974 while stoned on cannabis. > > What exactly was "conceived"? The mouse - from Xerox park? The OS, > a single-user form of Unix? Color; the Amiga already had it? The > combined monitor/processor? > > Brent >
Yeah - I think we've already dealt with it being the Apple computer being conceived in 1974, not the Mac (which came much later, around '82 or '83 IIRC, as a reaction to the expensive Lisa computer they were then trying to produce). On your other things - the mouse was invented in the '60s - I think at Xerox PARC IIRC. The original MacOS (up to and including MacOS 9) bore no relationship to Unix. Unix came to the Mac with the second coming of Jobs in the late '90s. The first Macs were back and white - the first colour Mac I saw was in 1986. PCs with colour monitors appeared around the same time, and as you mention, the Amiga was around by that time. As for the original Apple computer being conceived whilst Jobs was stoned - any evidence? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
