Buying a new laptop- Apple?

[shilala]

Originally Posted by macpappy

(Side note: Does anyone else remember working an a TRS-80?)

In the 80's, one guy, Steve Jobs designed the machine, built the machine, and wrote the OS for Apple. It was not rocket surgery.
BASIC was open source. There was no graphics support.
I coded the graphics support for BASIC so I could create an interactive book that worked just like you'd read a book on a Kindle nowadays.
It was on Marine Biolgy.
I also coded music to make singing Christmas Cards that astounded people. MIDI was already there, just no BASIC support, so I coded it.
I won all sorts of accolades, and got four periods a day in middle school and high school to do genius stuff. So I did.
I smoked lots of dope, drank tons of beer, and played Galaga at Sheetz while I was supposed to be doing brilliant things.
It was awesome.

[macpappy]

Originally Posted by shilala

In the 80's, one guy, Steve Jobs designed the machine, built the machine, and wrote the OS for Apple. It was not rocket surgery.
BASIC was open source. There was no graphics support.
I coded the graphics support for BASIC so I could create an interactive book that worked just like you'd read a book on a Kindle nowadays.
It was on Marine Biolgy.
I also coded music to make singing Christmas Cards that astounded people. MIDI was already there, just no BASIC support, so I coded it.
I won all sorts of accolades, and got four periods a day in middle school and high school to do genius stuff. So I did.
I smoked lots of dope, drank tons of beer, and played Galaga at Sheetz while I was supposed to be doing brilliant things.
It was awesome.

And all this time I thought the TRS-80 was made by Tandy/Texas Instruments.

[T.G]

Originally Posted by shilala

In the 80's, one guy, Steve Jobs designed the machine, built the machine, and wrote the OS for Apple. It was not rocket surgery.

IIRC, that was Wozniak, not Jobs. Jobs was more of the marketing type.

[shilala]

Originally Posted by T.G

IIRC, that was Wozniak, not Jobs. Jobs was more of the marketing type.

You're right, it was Woz. Jobs left in 80-something then came back later.
Jobs sold the Apple to a shop, then he and Woz and a few other dudes cranked out 50 machines to fill their first order.