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Why would Steve Jobs be freaking in 1981 when he already saw it back in 1979? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Star http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Star
by portLAN 19y ago
Why would Steve Jobs be freaking in 1981 when he already saw it back in 1979?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Star http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Star
Also Folklore.Org says the same thing:
http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Busy_Being_Born.txt http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...
"This is obviously the biggest single jump in the entire set of photographs, and the place where I most wish that Bill had dated them. It's tempting to say that the change was caused by the famous Xerox PARC visit, which took place in mid-December 1979, but Bill thinks that the windows predated that, although he can't say for sure."
- staunch 19y agoMaybe because he knew how far away his Mac launch was and it made him nervous to have the Star out there already.
- portLAN 19y agoWith that price tag? "Although a single unit sold for $16,000, a typical office would have to purchase at least 2 or 3 machines along with a file server and a print server. Dropping $50,000 to $100,000 for a complete installation was not an easy sell."