RIP: Steve Jobs

RIP Mr. Jobs. My first Mac experience was in college in San Francisco in 1983/84. Been using Mac's ever since. I still remember using PageMaker on a Mac and an Apple laserwriter for desktop publishing in the late 80's..
 
Started with a Mac Plus with a single floppy. Then an SE with dual floppies. Bought a 40 megabyte internal for $800.00.

I was in heaven.

Now our iPhone is hundreds (or thousands) of times more powerful.
 
Got my first Mac in 1988. It was a Mac Plus like this:
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Next, I got a Classic II like this:
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"...i heard the news today, oh boy..."

a sad day.

we lost an innovative force.

thank you steve jobs, for making my world a better place.

be well

rob
smalltalk productions
 
RIP Steve!

unlike a lot of you, the first thing that comes to mind with Steve is Pixar rather than Apple, I never got to own an Apple Mac when I was young and my first Apple experience was with an iPod Mini, but without Steve pixar would be a mere memory!
 
I am not a fan of Apple products. I am a HUGE fan of great people. Steve Jobs was clearly a great person. I hope comfort upon those who mourn him. I hope inspiration upon those who seek direction without him. I hope peace upon him and his loved ones. He made the world a better place in so many ways. May we all dare to be like him in some way/shape or form. I raise my voice in honor of you, Steve Jobs....where the echo of voices (this day and many more to come) is DEAFENING: peace on your journey...where ever you may be.
 
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I don't have photos, but I remember all of them, my first Mac was a 6100, which I got from Sears back in 1996. My next was a laptop a 180c, which I quickly upgraded to a 5300. I bought a 1400c from a pawnshop, but sold it to a friend.Then later, I decided I needed a new computer and bought an iMac. My friend would go on to buy the AV Imac which became our editing computer. The purchase that changed everything for me was the a 1gig PowerMac, which I edited my first and second films on. Then I bought a Macbook, which I stupidly sold.

Now I use my G5, which is a workhorse, even now and a G4 laptop for internet and writing. My next purchase will be a modern Machine that can run Lion and FCPX. I plan to cut "Divinity" in FCPX if I ever get finished with "Epitaph". Everything I know today, as far as my creative work was taught to me on a Mac. I've been a Mac user and lover for over twenty years counting my college days.

-Nate
 
Started using Macs with the Macintosh and Macintosh II in school. After college my first Mac was a Power Mac 9600 MP to build my first editing system on with Adobe Premiere. Worked on a G3 with Media 100 at my first job editing. Have since bought for home and work G4s, G5s, MacPros, Xserve, a PowerBook 12", a MacBook Pro 15", Mac minis, iMac 24s, and Airport extremes. Bought the first gen iPod. Use an iPhone, just ordered the iPhone 4s. You can say Steve Jobs has had an influence on my life. (I also use Windows 7 on all my Macs and several Windows machines at work, but just don't feel that Bill Gates, even though wonderful and influential human being that he is, has had much impact on my life.)
 
Ever since the Apple II, Apple / Mac products have always been something fun and "cool" that I've always wanted. It's an amazing achievement. Almost a religion now. Take care in the after life, Mr. Jobs.
 
My friend cried about the whole thing for a bit before she went to sleep. She took me to the first Apple Store they built in Illinois, which was in the suburbs. And we both stood in line at the grand opening of the one on Michigan Avenue. It was so much fun that night. It was like a celebration.

-Nate
 
Batutta said:
What was your first Apple product? This one was mine. I actually learned to program it in basic pretty well, made a few programs, that my Junior High teacher accused me of stealing from a magazine which probably derailed my future as a programmer.
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My first was an Apple II and then the first I bought was an Apple IIe with 128K memory and 2 5" floppy drives. It was HOT, HOT, HOt!!! I also owned and SE and a Power PC, before I was given a PC by my employer. My MacBook Pro is supposed to show up tomorrow. I think I will call it Steve. I bought it to follow my dreams.

He left a huge impact on the world and we are a better place for his being here. Technology which can be cold and cutting was made warm an fuzzy by his influence. God bless him.

Best to all, live your life, it is what you have!

Jan
 
Just got up and read this...At first I couldn't believe it...
I also have to second the great work he did in Pixar. And he was one the biggest sole shareholder of TWDC.
Damn he was in every venture one would desire to be. A great man.
I am sorry for the family, which is the one that lost more in the end.
 
When I got into actually owning macs in 2003 I was struggling to get an audio interface to work on a PC machine I built (motherboard PCI bus burst cache problem) and a new friend of mine said "Come over to my studio, let me show you my setup". I went over and it was a beige G3 running Digital Performer 3 and using a MOTU interface. It was running MacOS (which I never liked) but it was stable and his music was awesome. I happened to mention on Livejournal at the time I was thinking about a Mac and ended up buying a Blue and White G3 for $300. Given OSX 10.2 was out, I upgraded the CPU, hard drive and video card in a about a weeks time and started to really like the machine. I was able to then run OSX and was so impressed, I went out the next day and bought a PowerMac G4 15 inch with 867Mhz processor. In the next month I wrote 4 songs, and then performed them live at a friends house and at a local club to an audience.

The software just worked, and I was able to stop fighting the machine and work on music. One of THE BEST computer experiences I have ever had.

Of course, since then I've gone from the PowerBookG4 to a Mac Book CoreDuo to A MacBookPro 17 then another MacBook Pro 17 then my current Macbook Pro 17 i7 quad core. I also had the Mini G4 which now I have 2 Mini Core2Duos. But for my studio machine, I had the 2 core Mac Pro G5 1.8Ghz and that turned into a Mac Pro Quad 2.66Ghz machine which is from 2006 and still runs amazingly well (I use mostly for audio).

I don't care what other people use, if it works for you, use it! Apples have problems just like any other system, but MY experience has been great and my output of both music and video work makes me happy. And really, that's what *I* care about.

I can also say that I got the opportunity to use a NeXT station in school (Florida Tech). It was a very strange machine, as it was VERY unix like which is why I felt it never caught on. However, Cocoa which came from NeXT (Objective-C) is one of my favorite parts of OSX and while most people would see Steve's time at NeXT a failure, I see it as being one of the biggest positive influences to the Apple OS architecture.

I've developed software for both Windows and OSX (both Carbon and Cocoa) and what's going on under the hood is just as amazing as what's going on that you are seeing. That is when I really started to respect not only Steve, but the rest of Apple as well and what they had created.

That's not to say they don't make mistakes, every company does, or make decisions I don't like, but the engineer in me has been inspired by their insight and planning.
 
My first Apple product was an iPod Video. I wished I could have owned an early apple computer, but my parents never would make it a priority. As soon as I could afford it, I bought my first 17" Macbook Pro that I am typing on right now.

I'd only wished I could have afforded a Mac sooner. I was always a fan, and hope to continue to be.

I cannot express how much of an inspiration Steve was in my professional life. His life is a lesson to us all to not listen to all the noise out there, but to listen to what our inner self tells us.

Steve was a good example of someone whodidn't follow the well worn path, but forged a new one early, and often.

His influence on the world cannot be understated. As one commentator said, we have lost the Thomas Edison of our time.
 
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