insanely grateful thank you

Dear Steve Jobs… Insanely Grateful.

insanely grateful thank you

from candlelight vigil outside the sf apple store

Dear Steve Jobs,

I saw my first Apple II when I was a child visiting my friend who moved away to Philly. His dad programmed on it. I put a 5 1/4″ floppy in one drive that ran the OS and another in the one that ran the fun.

My first computer was a Commodore 64. I got my first Mac, an SE, at a computer store next to the mall the day of my High School graduation. I didn’t want to leave it to go to the ceremony that afternoon.

It still sits in my office with a 3.5″ disc hanging out.  I tried to turn it on a few years ago after grabbing it out of my parent’s attic. It booted up but started smoking from the dust inside it.

I kept 8 of my old macs. I keep the first iPod on my bookshelf along with the first iPhone.

My friend who worked with you at Pixar would limit me to one ‘Steve Jobs’ story each time we hung out.

I started and run my company on a Mac.

I was on cloud 9 the day I saw you deliver your keynote for the iMac. You gave us a preview copy of Time magazine with it on the cover as we left. I ran into Woz on the way out of the Moscone. He signed it.

Even though I never met you, I had a visceral feeling when I saw the tweet on my iPhone of your passing.

Insanely grateful,

glen.