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Steve Jobs: A BiographyБЂњI had to create it fast because there was a magazine ad for the Apple II showing a hubby at the kitchen table looking at an Apple screen filled with graphs of stock prices, and his wife is beaming at himБЂ”but there wasnБЂ™t such a program, so I had to create one.БЂ«Next he created for the Apple II a version of Pascal, a high-level programming language. Jobs had resisted, thinking that BASIC was all the Apple II needed, but he told Atkinson, БЂњSince youБЂ™re so passionate about it, IБЂ™ll give you six days to prove me wrong.БЂ«He did, and Jobs respected him ever after. By the fall of 1979 Apple was breeding three ponies to be potential successors to the Apple II workhorse. There was the ill-fated Apple III. There was the Lisa project, which was beginning to disappoint Jobs. And somewhere off JobsБЂ™s radar screen, at least for the moment, there was a small skunkworks project for a low-cost machine that was being developed by a colorful employee named Jef Raskin, a former professor who had taught Bill Atkinson ...» |
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