In today's dollars, the 'first' Macintosh Portable weighed 15 lbs (6.8kg), 40mb HDD and in today's dollars cost $16,500. You could buy 27 Macbook Neos for that đ
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In 1989 NYT journalist John Markoff quoted analyst Charles Wolf on Apple's future - "Moses went to the mountain for the Ten Commandments, Steve Jobs went to the mountain and came back with the Macintosh. But can John Sculley go to the mountain and come back with something unique?"
Did Tim Cook come back with Neo?
âI just read, start to finish. Could not stop once I started. Many of the stories I was familiar with from my day to day workings at Apple, but did not know how and why they ended up at Apple. All in all a very interesting read. Well doneâ. Don North ex-Advanced Technology Group -> https://books.by/john-buck
Hey Canada. Itâs but one game. As you know, weâre with you for the long haul. Always got your back. Regards, all Australians.
I still don't understand why the stock markets are so bullish on Anthropic (or any AI product) when a request to check the facts on a story that I know, got me the storyline of a made up person. When confronted, Claude and all bots use the phrase 'hallucinate'.
How would that excuse go at your work review? with your boss?
At what point do we trust LLMs with medical decisions, health records, legal decisions, self-driving, high-school papers?
"You know what Apple doesnât have? A podcast creation app in its brand new creative suite. Hmmm." @dmoren But we have KeyNote and Numbers FFS
No two Apple job interviews were the same.
Adobe debuted ATM. John Warnock told the press:
âThis should give all PostScript applications a much better WYSIWYG effect. Type is the blood that circulates in the computer system. We want one kind of blood in computers.â
Robert X. Cringely recalled Adobe's stance:
"Adobe's underlying hope was that quick market acceptance of ATM would dissuade Apple from even setting out on its separate course."
It was too late. Apple had secretly built its own font system, Bass.
ATG boss Larry Tesler says, âYou donât have a degree, and we donât know where to put youâ So Larry was a no, but Harry Vertelney says, 'No, no, no, he's great. He's going to do exactly what we need him to do.
