Word: macintoshes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems to have vanquished at least some of his personal demons. Adopted as an infant, Jobs spent his early adulthood on a classic '60s-era quest for personal identity, seeking transcendence and self-realization through drugs and meditation, founding Apple and establishing a New Age "family" of fervent Macintosh partisans while keeping his own out-of-wedlock daughter Lisa and her mother at a sad remove...
...special event" yesterday, 13 months after the first iMac was unveiled, Apple interim CEO and Noah Wyle lookalike Steve Jobs launched four new products: three new iMacs and a new version of the Macintosh operating system called OS9. Besides keeping its promise to upgrade its product lines more or less annually, and giving its fans something to ask Santa for, the announcement revealed Apple as firmly seated on three bandwagons: the Internet, desktop video and privacy...
...found Handspring, learned from their success, and are using it as a springboard--hold on to that word--for their Visor.) The basic model sells for $149, but you'll need to shell out another $30 if you want a cradle for synching it with your PC or Macintosh. The "deluxe" unit is $249; with 8 MB of RAM, it has four times the memory of the basic and comes in five goofy high-tech colors...
...flexible, efficient 32-bit operating system with an array of features, including multi-tasking and serious multimedia muscle, that have turned out to be extremely prescient. The Amiga built up an active user base and a respectable software library, and it seemed ready to take its place with the Macintosh and the IBM PC as a major home computing platform. MORE...
...Microsoft stint lasted 13 years, during which he started the company's multimedia division and worked on applications for the Macintosh before Apple's famous computer had even been introduced...