Eric VitielloMay 5, 2024

ooh neat auction.

UPDATE: This is fake. Please don’t bid.

/cc @Cdespinosa

https://www.ebay.com/itm/285841371389?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=dV4ohs51QzG&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=05wwBFy7TlG&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

STEVE JOBS 1978 APPLE EMPLOYEE CARD +HANDWRITTEN MAP Iphone Ipad Macintosh Lisa | eBay

In the Stevens Creek office, Jobs and Wozniak worked right next to each other. There, Jobs and Woz sat as far apart as possible. • SIGNATURE CONFIRMATION.

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Show threadChris EspinosaMay 5, 2024
@pixel that’s… fake. Both of them.
Show threadCabel SasserMay 5, 2024

@Cdespinosa @pixel FYI, I’m messaging the seller just to see what they say, and will report back. I “love” a good bamboozler.

Chris I’m assuming this is all complete fiction then? (A lot of work put into “aging” that map! Impressed by the yellowed tape)

Show threadChris EspinosaMay 5, 2024

@cabel @pixel

That’s not Sherry Livingston.
That wasn’t taken with a Polaroid with a flash.
The laminate dimensions are all wrong.
That’s a computer font, not an IBM Selectric Orator type ball.
That’s not my original sketch, which was on a National engineering pad.

Show threadsanguish
@Cdespinosa @cabel @pixel you must have the mind of a steel trap to remember the type of pad you drew it on! I’m jealous. lol
May 5, 2024 at 8:45pmWeb
Show threadChris EspinosaMay 5, 2024
@sanguish @cabel @pixel we did EVERYTHING on green National computation pads.
Show threadsanguishMay 5, 2024
@Cdespinosa @cabel @pixel was it someone’s favorite?
Show threadDr. DrangMay 5, 2024
@sanguish @Cdespinosa @cabel @pixel It was what engineers all over used back then. Half a continent away, pretty much all of my classmates did their homework on those pads. I still have have notes on that paper from the early 80s, and they haven’t yellowed yet.
Show threadsanguishMay 5, 2024
@drdrang @Cdespinosa @cabel @pixel I’m blown away by people with notes from the eighties
Show threadTyler Stone May 6, 2024

@sanguish Pffft. I’ve got *tattoos* from the eighties. 😐😆

(cc @drdrang @Cdespinosa @cabel @pixel)

Show threadEric VitielloMay 6, 2024
@sanguish @drdrang @Cdespinosa @cabel I have notes from the early nineties, no 80s though
Show threadsanguishMay 22, 2024
@pixel @drdrang @Cdespinosa @cabel weren’t able to write yet? 😛
Show threadEric VitielloMay 22, 2024
@sanguish @drdrang @Cdespinosa @cabel 😛 i was born in 75 😉
Show threadsdevore (moving)May 5, 2024
@Cdespinosa @sanguish @cabel @pixel Now that I am more mature I sometimes use the beige
Show threadPassimMay 5, 2024
@Cdespinosa @sanguish @cabel @pixel Those are still great btw.
Show threadsanguishMay 5, 2024
@passim @Cdespinosa @cabel @pixel wish you could stock up at 70s 😂
Show threadChristian Keefer-MoomawMay 5, 2024

@sanguish You can still find quite similar pads from other vendors. We used them extensively in my engineering undergraduate courses which were less than a decade ago.

Edit: typo

Show threadsanguishMay 5, 2024
@cdmoomaw the ones @Cdespinosa posted are on Amazon.
Show threadChristian Keefer-MoomawMay 5, 2024
@sanguish @Cdespinosa Ah, missed that.
Show threadsanguishMay 5, 2024
@cdmoomaw @Cdespinosa I had to go looking. 😁
Show threadEric VitielloMay 5, 2024
@passim @Cdespinosa @sanguish @cabel i still use them
Show threadBill WoodcockMay 5, 2024
@Cdespinosa @sanguish @cabel @pixel

Arrrr... I was going to cross-reference this thread with the one in which Dana Sibera disclosed that she uses exclusively these self-printed-and-padded notes:

http://www.danamania.com/print/Apple%20Notepad%20Sheets/

...which took me down a rathole of trying to figure out how to find her thread about it, which in turn led me to this:

https://airtalk.shop/product/airtalk-complete/
Index of /print/Apple Notepad Sheets

Show threadEric VitielloMay 5, 2024
@woody @Cdespinosa @sanguish @cabel oh neat!
Show threadMike WolfinbargerMay 5, 2024
@Cdespinosa @sanguish @cabel @pixel This is the way.
Show threadBen RosengartMay 6, 2024
@sanguish @Cdespinosa @cabel @pixel “full of mice" —Foghorn Leghorn