I keep a working Apple 2e on my hobby bench. It's fun to do things with. So open. It's amazing.
To me, Jobs did us a favor. I use my phone, nice laptop, a mix of Apple, Android, Linux, Windows to do amazing things, talk with people around the world, etc...
Total win.
Stuff we take for granted today... science fiction made real. No joke.
What I think should have happened is Woz continued with the Apple 2 line. Jobs didn't need to kill it to get his vision out there.
I got a GS to to tinker with, but haven't hooked it up yet. Too much going on. But, it hints at what would have come.
Today, people are always doing what Woz did. It's fun to build or run a little micro. One can get right to the bits, control things.
It may well be that Apple could have continued right along, a parallel to the PC, and had that happened, we may well have seen the product of that being the reference, or standard hack / hobby platform.
Now, we do have the Raspi. It's not bad, but it's also not easy to make effective use of it low level.
Something with roughly that amount of compute power, but accessible in that open Woz way, would be just perfect.
To me, Jobs did us a favor. I use my phone, nice laptop, a mix of Apple, Android, Linux, Windows to do amazing things, talk with people around the world, etc...
Total win.
Stuff we take for granted today... science fiction made real. No joke.
What I think should have happened is Woz continued with the Apple 2 line. Jobs didn't need to kill it to get his vision out there.
I got a GS to to tinker with, but haven't hooked it up yet. Too much going on. But, it hints at what would have come.
Today, people are always doing what Woz did. It's fun to build or run a little micro. One can get right to the bits, control things.
It may well be that Apple could have continued right along, a parallel to the PC, and had that happened, we may well have seen the product of that being the reference, or standard hack / hobby platform.
Now, we do have the Raspi. It's not bad, but it's also not easy to make effective use of it low level.
Something with roughly that amount of compute power, but accessible in that open Woz way, would be just perfect.