I read with much sadness about the passing of Steve Jobs yesterday. He was an amazing innovator and one of the giants in the world of technology.
To me it seems like only yesterday we were all introduced to the world of personal computing. It was a relatively new concept that an individual would have access to a computer at HOME, and that information could be manipulated and stored.
Using a personal computer wasn’t so easy back in those days. Most did NOT even have a hard drive and required the cumbersome use of tape drives and then floppy disks. In many cases a program had to be hand coded, with each instruction laboriously entered one keystroke at a time.
In a sense, we were all pioneers back then as we moved further and further into unexplored territory. But someone had to blaze the trail first.
Although I chose to become a disciple of Bill Gates and a Beta tester for Microsoft, I appreciate the contributions of Messrs Jobs and Wozniak in the promulgation of personal technology.
And I look back on those days with fondness, as we all worked together to build what we have today!
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