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We lost Steven Jobs today. My first computer was an Apple IIGS. I went Microsoft for a lot of years and now I am both a PC and a Mac.

Good bye, Steve.

I first used a Mac in a high school computer science class. One of the tiny B&W ones, I forget which model, but I fell in love with the OS and I knew that my first computer would be a Mac. It turned out to be a Performa 6320CD, which was a piece of crap even by 1996 standards. All you need to know is that it had a 120mhz processor and a 1.2GB (!) hard drive. But that would be followed by an iMac SE and a MacBook, as well as a pair of iPods and an iPhone. Expensive? Yes, but it also meant ease of use, piece of mind and high quality... and perhaps a little prestige.

RIP, Steve.

The heart-n-soul of Apple...RIP Mr Jobs!

The first computer I every used, was the Apple II in a high school science class. You used audio cassettes for loading programs and storing data.


Rip Steve

Remember those from my Accounting class in high school

First used an Apple II in high school Trigonometry class. There were only two in that class. Also used them in my freshman year at college for an introductory computer course. Never owned an Apple product but I would like to get an iPad someday.

I still haven't read the latest issue of MacLife that came in the mail recently, but the article on the corner struck me immediately. It's about Jobs stepping down as CEO, but still...

From what I read today, Steve knew time was up back in the Spring and then in true fashion he went about to settle things in orderly way so there was no chaos when he died. When he announced his retirement, the major insiders already knew the inevitable. I consider it amazing that the Apple stock hasn't taken a major hit on his death. God Bless you Steve.

I'm not surprised. Although he was a the front man for the company, the innovations were created by a team of people. I've heard a lot about how he was such a great innovator, which he was, but he didn't come up with everything from start to finish. I think the real stock holders knew that. Any sell off, was probably people dealing in stocks that pick the stocks based on name basis.

BTW. . . I've never seen any of these apple computers you guys are talking about.