Go Blog it on the Mountain…
I’m up at my folks’ mountain place for Christmas through Tuesday. Tonight I rolled in on the gravel driveway about an hour and a half later than intended. ’twas good to be here at last, though, with work miles behind me. If I’m reading my dad’s weather station display properly, it’s 33 degrees out, winds NE at 17mph. Wind chimes talk, talk, talk…
It’s been quiet on the RSS reader all week, and deathly quiet today. No Achewood strip, no Wired News stories about cloning and e-voting to ignore.
One thing I have been reading is folklore.org, stories from the early days of Apple. Back when the Macintosh was an “embryo.” It’s very cool to read about the environment there. It makes me wish I were as eat-drink-sleep work as those guys must have been. They’re writing disk controller routines, and they can’t get enough of it! Amazing.
Some of you may have heard the story about Steve Jobs moving a programmer (Andy Hertzfeld, who apparently maintains the site and has contributed numerous stories) from the Apple II to the Macintosh project. When Hertzfeld said he’d love to join the Mac project - in a few days (he wanted to get things tidy for his successor) - Steve yanked the power cable and took Hertzfeld and his computer to the new office in his Mercedes. Get it from the horse’s mouth.
December 27th, 2004 at 5:04 pm
Interesting story… all the more so because at the end I (surprisingly, I admit) was left with the taste-in-my-mouth sort of impression that Steve Jobs would be an annoying SOB to work with. Creative genius, sure, but man — I can just imagine having to deal with him and coming away shaking my head to myself thinking, “Sheesh, what a prick“!
But Macs are still the greatest. computers. evar.