Cort, Joel said: >Listees, > >Did anyone get a chance to watch the show on TNT "Pirates of Silicon Valley" >all about Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Bill Gates, Apple, Xerox and Microsoft? >There were lots of VWs sightings in the show: >A Type2 Camper in the opening portion driven by Steve Wozniak, it was >supposed to be 1971 in Berkley and they had a 1974-79 van. (duh I guess they >did not research that too well) This was the van that actually went to part finance the startup of Apple Computer. Jobs owned the van & sold it for a few grand. Woz had his HP calculator which he 'sacrificed' for cash to get Apple going. So the story goes..... >Joel B. Cort BTW - you should see the number of type-2s and vanagons there are out in our parking lot!! Pete C -- Peter Cassidy, pcassidy@apple.com '88 Wolfsburg "Muriel" *not speaking for Apple* |
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