[quote=Allan from Fallbrook][quote=flu] New money does interesting things to people. Post-IPO but Pre-BubbleBurst NorCal people can get pretty bad [/quote]
FLU: I had a job at Apple during high school (1982), cleaning printed circuit boards (back when Apple fabbed their own computers, the IIc and IIe). This was right after the Apple IPO and, pretty quickly, folks there started trading the VWs in for Porsches. That was about when the attitude really started changing up there.
This may be before your time, but I remember the days of Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs and the rest of the nerds hanging out at the Byte Shop in Mountain View with Paul Terrell and talking computers. That’s where it all started and, back before the money, it was just computer jockeys, engineers and programmers. There were some big players, like Lockheed M&S, IBM, Raytheon and Ford Aerospace (where my dad worked), but nothing like today.
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I think I was in 3rd grade then around 1983 was when I got my IIe (thanks dad! :)…Helping my teacher use the IIe for a class presentation. I was one of the few kids that had a IIe …A whopping 128k memory, 80 column text card, joystick, floppy drive, and a ImageWriter dot matrix printer. My dad coughed up $3010.99 for that thing those days…I still have the receipt. Mine was partly made in taiwan. My friend on the other hand had a “Orange IIe”, which was a Apple IIE illegally copied and smuggled out of Taiwan.
The school’s system had me beat…A color monitor that could display 16 colors. Woohoo…. LOGO was the king of graphics then. “Show turtle”, etc…Hmmm, I should dig that out of my closet.
