Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
I first used a Mac in 1996. It was running System 7 on some clone or other.
Sitting down in front of a Mac in 1996 was, though I had no idea at the time, incredibly good timing on my part. That was the year that Steve Jobs returned to the company he co-founded and promptly set about transforming it, and his industry (for the second time).
The first fruit of Jobs’ return was also the first computer I owned, the “Bondi Blue” iMac G3.
Since the day I set up that iMac—There is no step 3!—Apple machines have helped me lay out pages, design posters, write tens of thousands of words for newspapers, magazines and weblogs, play DJ sets in nightclubs, publish websites and make friends.
Cheers, Steve.
