A Conversation for Talking Point: Good or Bad by Design
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Clickie Posted Jul 13, 2001
Apple purchased the right to take a tour of PARC and get their ideas. Microsoft did not.
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Jul 13, 2001
Nope, Clickie - According to the history of Apple I got out of the library, Steve Jobs just went on the standard public tour, and took a lot of notes. 
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Pyrex Muse of Unbreakable Space-age Wonder Glass, Student of Life, Keeper of the Seven Keys of Ventuslor Posted Jul 16, 2001
I am going to start up a new computer company that produces stable systems that are fully compatable with everything... I will call it Orange, and the first computer line will be the Slicker E-3.
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Jul 16, 2001
Won't the mobile phone people complain? Don't bother with Pear - that used to be a company making Apple II clones, and Banana made Apple-compatible printers... If you're in New Zealand, you could call it Kiwi-Fruit...?
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Pyrex Muse of Unbreakable Space-age Wonder Glass, Student of Life, Keeper of the Seven Keys of Ventuslor Posted Jul 16, 2001
I was just thinking apples and oranges... Maybe I could call it Pea or Carrot.... The slicker is like a Macintosh though... get it
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Clickie Posted Jul 16, 2001
Actually, I take back my earlier comments...according to people who worked at Apple back then (1976-1980s and beyond), many of the people who worked at Apple used to work at PARC on many of the same concepts, so much of the Mac interface was designed by people who originated the GUI concepts, both at PARC and at Apple. It wasn't any kind of stealing or buying at all.
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Pyrex Muse of Unbreakable Space-age Wonder Glass, Student of Life, Keeper of the Seven Keys of Ventuslor Posted Jul 16, 2001
Who cares all it is is a bunch of Ones and Zeros... Think about it... How did they progam the first progam... whithout a programming program???
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Jul 16, 2001
Through the front panel toggles, of course!
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Pyrex Muse of Unbreakable Space-age Wonder Glass, Student of Life, Keeper of the Seven Keys of Ventuslor Posted Jul 17, 2001
But how did the computer distinguish what to do with the ones and zeros? It is a vicious circle... I wonder what it would be like to have real virtual reality...
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- 21: Clickie (Jul 13, 2001)
- 22: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Jul 13, 2001)
- 23: Pyrex Muse of Unbreakable Space-age Wonder Glass, Student of Life, Keeper of the Seven Keys of Ventuslor (Jul 16, 2001)
- 24: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Jul 16, 2001)
- 25: Pyrex Muse of Unbreakable Space-age Wonder Glass, Student of Life, Keeper of the Seven Keys of Ventuslor (Jul 16, 2001)
- 26: Clickie (Jul 16, 2001)
- 27: Pyrex Muse of Unbreakable Space-age Wonder Glass, Student of Life, Keeper of the Seven Keys of Ventuslor (Jul 16, 2001)
- 28: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Jul 16, 2001)
- 29: Pyrex Muse of Unbreakable Space-age Wonder Glass, Student of Life, Keeper of the Seven Keys of Ventuslor (Jul 17, 2001)
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