On Wed, 5 Oct 2011 19:57:20 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:



"X ` Man" wrote in message
om...

It's too bad we lose people like Steve Jobs when trash like Dick Cheney
is still alive.


http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nat...,7292186.story


A shame. He brought much to this world that many of us often take for
granted. Smart guy.

Eisboch

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Very smart guy, a genius at product design and user interface. He
picked up good ideas that others had overlooked and turned them into
revolutionary products like the Apple Macintosh and the Ipod.

The first time I saw a Macintosh back in the '80s I was blown away by
the mouse, windowing concepts and great graphics capabilities.
Everything else looked like stone age computing by comparison.

Few people realize it today but the mouse and windowing concepts
originated in a Xerox Corporate R&D operation called the Palo Alto
Research Center (PARC). It was a classic case of not knowing what
they had invented and not knowing what to do with it.