OK, bio je genije (rezultati dokazuju) i stoga automatski bar malo disfunkcionalno ljudsko biće, i svi znaju da je ljudski bio šupak (vidi pod kćer), ali da je u poslovnom smislu bio baš takav šupak … eee, to me ipak malo iznenadilo 🙄.
Priča o stvaranju Apple II računala, prenesena s Quora (link – https://qr.ae/pv2clX ):
Contrary to all the great things said about Steve Jobs, I knew him. Steve tried to use me and nearly destroyed one of my proteges. He was obsessively driven with near zero electronic skills and horrible programming skills. What Steve did well was to take in innocent people, promise them the world, then rip them off, one after another. He would do or say anything to push his personal agenda.
My comments need some background. I built early critical care hospital patient monitors and biofeedback trainers, helped build an IBM mainframe memory mapped video display, wrote the software for that display, and wrote an interactive self-learning (heuristic) chess program that placed second worldwide. My efforts got me drafted in 1968 to teach digital electronics and computer science at UC Davis while still an undergraduate and I continued teaching digital electronics and computer programming through 1999.
The early digital electronic efforts required almost as much witchcraft as science and engineering. In 1972 I built a color graphics Intel 8008 based PC with 5 MB hard drive and fast line printer, plus wrote a DOS, BASIC, assembler, compiler, data base, key data entry, word processor and spreadsheet to make this a viable tool. Getting this to work was a nightmare. The technology was so much faster than our scopes, we could only guess what was happening. There were many unsung heroes such as Russell Light, Dave Mack, Ralph Scowden, Dallas Parcher, Al Duran, on and on who helped build the tools and logic probes to help me get that system working. When challenged to put an IBM System 3 onto a single microprocessor chip, I added three more important tools. I developed a minicomputer emulator that could quickly be made to run just about any firmware instruction set. I also created a digital design editor and test program to test complex very large scale integrated (VSLI) circuits on that emulator before putting the designs on silicon.
Intel and many other vendors gave our university chips, memory, test equipment, peripherals and help in exchange for using my emulator to help them develop VLSI chips and microprocessors. Intel had me help develop the instruction set for their 8080-microprocessor design along with an 8080 based personal computer prototype and software. A few startup firms traded me then worthless founder shares for my help creating for them new hardware and software products.
One of the many who approached me for help was Steve Jobs. He wanted to create a Motorola microprocessor based personal computer with software. He knew I had designed the main processor board for one of the most popular kit computers and Paul Allen had told Steve most of the 8080-software traced back to me and my lab. Steve offered me a large portion of the new firm he was creating in trade for my building him the hardware and software he needed. I put in a lot of work and time writing the tools to translate my programs to run on the Motorola microprocessor. Steve demanded I send him everything with no written agreement, then even refused to make the three-hour one-way trip to come to me and see what I had built. I did not trust him, so I moved on.
I was working with John, the then senior electronics technician for UC Davis. He was far more knowledgeable about digital electronics, and I knew software far better, so I we worked together to build a very small and well-built Intel 8080 based personal computer with software.
John and I went to the West Coast Computer Shows in San Francisco together. As we walked along this long-haired guy screamed at us telling us he had the future. What he had was a pile of wires hooked up to a cheap color TV and nothing worked. John was interested because this guy was touting the new Motorola microprocessor chip as the future of computing. We went into his booth, and I wanted to flee immediately as the guy reeked, meaning he had not had a bath or shower in who knows how long. I realized this was the same jerk who previously wasted my time. Within seconds John had that mess at least showing something on the display. Steve had no clue that he and I had spent hours on the phone, and he had already pissed me off. Steve immediately went into his spiel offering John a piece of his new computer firm and a guaranteed consulting fee if he could create a reliable single board Motorola microprocessor based computer. I told John on the way home that Steve had already made the same pitch to me and failed to come through, so I recommended against getting involved. John did his own thing, spent nearly a year refining that system into a real work of art, and ended up creating the Apple II single printed circuit board computer. Steve reneged on payment, did not offer a piece of the company, and frankly credited others for John’s work.
Zvone Radikalni 