Very interesting if one-sided interview. He gives Steve Wozniak very little credit although Woz really was the inventor and Jobs the salesman in the partnership.
I read Sculley's autobiography many years ago (From Pepsi to Apple). It doesn't describe events quite the same way. Nevertheless, good that it has surfaced at a time where nobody gets sued for defamation. After I left IBM in 1979 I wrote some applications on the Apple II. It was a challenge and from an electrical engineering point of view, it was poor with a weak power supply that ran the CPU, Floppy drives which caused the screen to wobble when operating. At the same time Apple were turning out the IIE, there was a host of other nicer systems, such as the Cromemco System 3 and Altos 8000 which ran CP/M and MP/M and had a more robust construction. It was a shame that Gary Kildall died so young, he would have been a great competitor for Jobs and Gates. On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 9:28 AM Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > A friend shared this with me and I thought it was just extraordinary. It > is not "mainframe" but his comments on what happens when the marketeers run > a tech company will resonate with many of us. It’s a fairly long read. It’s > a transcript of a long interview done for a TV show – only a few minutes > were actually used – by Bob Cringely, and thought to be lost. Steve Jobs > was at the time (1995) running NeXT, which he was to sell to Apple a month > later. It is a fascinating read. > > https://sameerbajaj.com/jobs/ > > Charles > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
