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Another designer he couldn’t hire built the connection machine http://www.tamikothiel.com/cm/index.html http://www.tamikothiel.com/cm/index.html > How the Con
by twobitshifter 5y ago
Another designer he couldn’t hire built the connection machine
http://www.tamikothiel.com/cm/index.html http://www.tamikothiel.com/cm/index.html
> How the Connection Machine inspired Steve Jobs:
My old friend Joanna Hoffman was marketing manager for the first Macintosh and the NeXT computer, and Steve Jobs' "right hand," as depicted by Kate Winslet in the film "Steve Jobs." In 1986, when the Connection Machine came out, Jobs asked her to get its designer to create his new NeXT computer as well. To which Joanna replied, "Too late, Tamiko has gone to Europe to become an artist!" But the machine made a lasting impression on him, and from that point on, Jobs' designs were not merely useful - they were visually sublime.
See "CM-1/CM-2 Design Legacy" >>
- hinkley 5y agoI wonder if that really would have worked out. They say you should never meet your heroes. Working with these people likely would have pushed them into his “shithead” category.
- setpatchaddress 5y agoEh. He worked with frogdesign, Paul Rand, Avie T., and a host of software people with strong opinions at NeXT. He wasn’t incapable of working with other people.
- wildpeaks 5y agoOh it's so nice to see a reference to Tamiko in the wild, she's a wonderful person.