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WineMine from Windows 1.0

Booklets, etc

Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer
Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple. A marketing genius tells his story
Macintosh! complete
Byte Magazine Volume 09 Number 03 - Simulation
Gold Coast Macintosh Users Group May 1997
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Bill Gates

You're probably familiar with him for the fact he was once the richest guy in the world. Maybe from the dozen hate sites there are dedicated to him. He was pretty big to meme on in the 90s and early 00s because everyone hated his products. Bill Gates (or William Henry Gates III if you don't want to be too personal) is one of the founders of Microsoft along with his buddy Paul Allen.

Originally, the company existed to sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. Then came MS-DOS, then came Windows, then came Internet Explorer, you can figure out the rest. Gates landed himself in a lawsuit in the 90s because of the way he bullied Netscape. He won that one. There was another lawsuit he won in the 80s too against Apple. Apparently he stole the GUI of Classic MacOS, I'll let you decide what happened with that one.

Love him or hate him, you can't deny he's very cute.

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Steve Jobs

Another very hated figure but at least it gets padded out by his cult following. Steve Jobs, famous for his charisma/narcissism (I'll let you decide that one too), was one of the founders of Apple along with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. I find him to be the most interesting person in the world because he's such an anomaly to me.

He brought the computer to the people (and later the phone), how noble. But a lot of people would call him a selfish asshole who was too caught up in his vision. That's what got him demoted at Apple then he subsequently quit to start NeXT Computer, Inc. Or was is NeXT Software Inc.?

He struggled to sell any computers with NeXT so it eventually became a software company. During this time he also invested into Pixar before Apple bought NeXT and he was back in.

He was a total hottie, you can't deny he was a looker!