How the Mac was born... supposedly...

From: Jim Battle <frustum_at_pacbell.net>
Date: Tue Jan 11 21:27:56 2005

Teo Zenios wrote:

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> From: "Jim Battle" <frustum_at_pacbell.net>
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> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 9:36 PM
> Subject: Re: How the Mac was born... supposedly...
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>>Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
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>>>On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, John Foust wrote:
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>>>>At 02:07 PM 1/11/2005, Computer Collector Newsletter wrote:
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>>>>>You were yelled at by Jobs? Please share the tale with the rest of us.
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> :)
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>>>>This is not a rare event. I would guess there must be a web site
>>>>devoted to such tales. They happen/ed regularly.
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>>>I haven't (yet) been yelled at by Jobs but I have been given a dirty
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> look
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>>>by Bill Gates.
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>>This is perhaps bad to tell a second hand story, but it is on thread and
>>I'll keep it short.
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>>A good friend/mac fanatic since 1985 was quite excited that an apple
>>store was opening in chicago. he went just about every day for a week.
>> after a couple weeks he called the store at opening time to ask if
>>they had something or other in stock. they were supposed to open at
>>10am. he called at 10am, and the phone rang and rang. he called again,
>>same thing. finally, at 10:05 someone finally answered. perturbed, he
>>wrote an email to steve jobs to inform him that the chicago store was
>>slacking off. the reply came minutes later, personally from steve jobs:
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>>Dennis, you are an asshole.
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>>Steve
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> You shave made him print it out and then go frame the email.
> What did your friend the Mac fanatic say about this comment from his idle?

My friend was quite proud and honored. He had long heard that Jobs does
  personally answer a fraction of his email, plus he figured some
subordinate would not have permission to call someone an asshole and
sign Jobs' name to it.

The net result is my friend has mailed Jobs a number of times since on
various topics. He received one other reply, but I forget what it was
about. I think Jobs response was something like, "Huh?"
Received on Tue Jan 11 2005 - 21:27:56 GMT