On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Kim Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> The thing that was "conceived" was the enterprise that became Apple > computer. What was brought into being, possibly with the aid of some > substance, was the synergistic union of the existing technologies into a > concept that allowed them all to be rolled into one and marketed > effectively. You can drone on all you like about the eclectic nature of the > operating system and the hardware, but the fact remains that something was > brought into being that previously was spread over a variety of devices and > platforms. The conception of something is clearly greater than the sum of > its parts. > Kim, I agree. There's this for example: http://www.thefix.com/content/steve-jobs-think-different-and-lsd-9143 "But equally suggestive, at least to us, is a quote from Steve Jobs to*New York Times* reporter* John Markoff*, who interviewed him for his 2005 book *What the Doormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer.*Speaking about his youthful experiments with psychedelics, Jobs said, *"*Doing LSD was one of the two or three most important things I have done in my life*." *He was hardly alone among computer scientists in his appreciation of hallucinogenics and their capacity to liberate human thought from the prison of the mind. Jobs even let drop<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ryan-grim/read-the-never-before-pub_b_227887.html> that Microsoft's *Bill Gates* would "be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once." Apple's mantra was*"*Think different*."* Jobs did. And he credited his use of LSD as a major reason for his success." I haven't read the book that is referenced so I cannot confirm the veracity of this claim. Best, Telmo. > > Kim Jones B. Mus. GDTL > > Email: [email protected] > [email protected] > Mobile: 0450 963 719 > Phone: 02 93894239 > Web: http://www.eportfolio.kmjcommp.com > > > *"Never let your schooling get in the way of your education" - Mark Twain* > > > > On 17 Apr 2014, at 10:54 am, Russell Standish <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
