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Reminds me of the Stanford address where Jobs claims that computers may not have had typography if he'd not done a calligraphy course. http://www.youtube.com/w
by acg 17y ago
Reminds me of the Stanford address where Jobs claims that computers may not have had typography if he'd not done a calligraphy course.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc
I'm sure the Parc guys that founded Adobe would beg to differ.
- rimantas 17y agoI'm sure the Parc guys that founded Adobe would beg to differ. Maybe, but I am not sure how much. I'd say Apple played a major role in Adobe becoming Adobe. It was Jobs who persuaded them to change initial plan to build the whole package: computer + printer, and focus on software which Apple needed for LaserWriter. "Steve did a prepayment on royalties to make sure we had the resources to stay in business, and Apple also bought a little less than 20 percent of the company, which quintupled the value of the original investors' money. Steve wanted to make sure that we finish this product, because it was critical for him to have the LaserWriter" "Fortunately, there was a young marketing guy at Apple named John Scull, who aware of what was going on (as were we) at Aldus up in Seattle, because PageMaker come out at the same time as the LaserWriter did. He came up with the idea of getting the three companies—Apple, Aldus and Adobe—together to put together a marketing campaign called "desktop publishing". Source: Interview with Charles Geschke, cofounder of Adobe Systems in "Founders at work".
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- shalmanese 17y agoWow, imagine if Jobs had taken a microbiology course. Apple computers would be able to cure cancer by now.
- papersmith 17y ago[TeX](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX) was released in 1978, though I'm not sure as to the time line of the other developments.