The Story of Sweet 16

bootload · on April 9, 2015

When I see a story on sweet16, I think of 1 point by Woz's byte-code interpreter for 16bit calculations on Apple][ 8bit 6502, not Mr. Gruber. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9351060

duncan_bayne · on April 9, 2015

I actually upvoted it on that assumption :-)

It's kinda sad that something like this only gets a couple of votes, while everyone is raving about the latest Apple products ... this is where the heart of Apple is, or at least used to be.

I do wonder what Apple might have been, had Jobs had someone like Woz in senior management to push hacker culture at Apple.

bootload · on April 11, 2015

"I do wonder what Apple might have been, had Jobs had someone like Woz in senior management to push hacker culture at Apple."

It was quite noticeable as Apple moved from the ][e to the ][c, no slots. With the ][e I added an 80 column card to increase the usable screen space. The ][c was a closed box. The change from open Apple to closed Apple happened very early.