Steve Jobs passed away!

[stefcep2]

R.I.P

Re: what made him great:knowing what needed to be done to remove as many barriers between the user and the usability of the hardware eg CLI---->GUI, iPod click wheel, UNIX--->OSX, custom GUI and OS for touch screens when everyone else was using desktop OS's with tacked-on touch screen functionality.  Of course award-winning industrial design and marketing that made Apple products "cool" to own, but none of that would have mattered if the devices didn't work as well as they do, look at Mac Cube, coolest looking mac ever, but ho-hum performer.

It takes talent, vision and insight in know what "works" and what doesn't, and Jobs had that in spades.

[stefcep2]

I'm a tinkerer.

Thats a synonym for an amiga user!

And it was beacsue i didn't want to tinker that i bought my first Mac, after using Shapeshifter!  And I'm not sure about all the hate for MacOs classic.

I had a Performa 7200, with a scsi scanner that run MacOS 8.1.  A real workhorse.  Ran photoshop, Office, Quark, Illustrator.  Fantastic graphic work station. Bullet proof reliability, fast enough, and it just "worked".  The multitasking was good enough, the print output and speed was superb.  Couldn't give too hoots about changing the interface, or mucking about with the OS libraries, devices, graphics drivers.  it just did the job without freezing, blue-screening or guruing.