[OSX-Users] Re: Time wasting

[Chris Andrews]

For the bonus round, would that be Bertrand Serlet?

I got 35/36 because once you've got some basic idea what it is the
alternative answer is so out there that it's easy to get. The one I fell
down on was distinguishing between a PowerBook 100 and a PowerBook 540c -
working out whether something with a FireWire port was an iPod or a fax
modem was a little easier...

Oh, and I got the Apple III because they missed a badge. Guess there should
have been another Jobs! (Or Woz...)

Chris

On Mon, 26 Oct 2015 at 21:55 m.c. schraefel <mc at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> well that was shockingly easy - esp. with the labels.
> thanks Les
> another way to cut this set:
> -which (hideous) designs came from the period of John Scully/GillAmelio?
> - what year did jobs come back to apple as iCEO
> - what product line did he cut - almost as soon as he got back in the door
> (only one example of that line shows up in these designs)
> — oh bonus round: who did Jobs bring over from next to do the OSX unix
> kernel work for OSX? ( i ask because i’ve actually forgotten his name, and
> in looking at queries like “who lead the dev team for rhapsody at apple -
> nothing)
>
> but heh surprising to recall: i was at the WWDC when all this transition
> happened - when gil amelio introduced Steve Jobs was coming back to Apple
> as “an advisor” with the purchase of next and the rhapsody thing.
> and then Jobs was introduced end of the week to “chat” about OpenStep and
> the blue and yellow box - and a vision for computing more generally.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnO7D5UaDig
>
> so wow, as i consider it about time, and how we never get moments back so
> spend the now wisely
>  i have seen steve jobs in the real, talked with guy kawasaki about being
> an evangelist and what that means for something you believe it, and first
> encountered whiteboard walls in Building 5 of Apple Campus as a grad
> student where engineers and marketing actually shared lab space
> - and at the end of the day, that means…well i’m not sure what that means,
> really.
> The use of space is the biggest take away from the time physically at
> apple; seeing jobs talk about why unix for Mac - awesome clarity, passion
> and a strong path - and that day a seeming humility within the certainty  -
> and talking cloud computing about 15 years ahead of it becoming the norm
> (if we’re there now).) kinda amazing in retrospect; it was pretty stunning
> at the time, too.
>
> we can be heroes
>
> mc
> @MIT - where at kendal square just down from the big weird and wonderful
> CSAIL building by Frank Gehry , they have a stone in the pavement for steve
> jobs - among other tech icons including edison - and on the anniversary of
> his death folks really do leave lit candles and flowers on it. how bout
> that eh?
>
>
> > On 26 Oct 2015, at 16:40, Leslie Carr <lac at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Can you identify these pieces of retro Apple tech? I'm an Apple Nerd
> extraordinaire - 32/36
> >
> >
> http://www.alphr.com/apple/1001832/can-you-name-these-35-pieces-of-retro-apple-tech
> >
> > Go on - how much apple tech do you recognise?
> >
> > Prof Leslie Carr
> > Web Science institute
> > #⃣ webscience #⃣ openaccess
> >
>
>
>
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