First how sad is it someone is taken so young and especially someone who today I heard called the Thomas Edison of our time. Steve Jobs was definitely a young pioneer of the computer evolution/revolution. Most people in fifty six years don't even come close to accomplishing what he did with his other Apple partners.
When I heard of his passing I like others really wasn't that surprised. After hearing his cancer tale I thought how not only was he a giant in the Apple world but also in his daily fight for life for the past several years.
Of course I had to think how Apple had touched my life for the past several decades. My first experience was back in the Apple hayday when they was just getting started. My early overall computer experience started in the early 1980's at work. Most of the programs were written in a language I had no clue about but when our employees in the department I was working in all got computers I think the majority of the people thought. Huh! this won't last.. Are we all getting a laugh now. The screen was green and hurt your eyes after a couple hours and every time we had a problem we went to our go to guy Ron who would get us out of a jam. To this day I am not a technical computer expert and will never be one. I think of myself as a self starter and still just through one in front of me and I can figure things out. But today it's much easier to figure things out than back then.
Forward to 1986 or 1987 when David came home with a surprise. He did that often when he was working for the moving companies. Be it a side-by-side refrigerator, a dinette set and two brand new mattress, he always came home with a treasure.
One of the early Apple computers appeared one night. Ok what am I suppose to do with it? There was no instructions and when you turned it on this is what you saw. >C. No pretty Apple logo, no type in your password. Needless to say, it pretty much sat there for several months, collecting dust and useless when we tried to locate directions we seemed at a loss. I think we eventually gave it to a relative to make better use of it. I saw the model we had when they were showing early pictures of Apple computers.
Move forward to about 5 years ago when our daughter went away to photography school. Our first conversation on her first days was how great the Apple computer system was. State of the art. The second comment out of her mouth was she would love to have one when she got home but they were really expensive. When I went for a visit I had a chance to use one at the school. It was a long way from the early 80's model we had. The screen was massive and the color graphics was amazing and are always getting better and faster.
Since that time the IPhone, IPad have graced our technological universe. What started off as a tiny little screen with a massive keyboard and drive in one, now is a world of you can do anything. What a man he was and he will be ever considered probably the pioneer of the computer world.
