Dear Steve Jobs… Insanely Grateful.

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.

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Ryloguy

Is that thenmac that almost caught fire and burned down the house .. Now a fish tank :-p @ryloguy
Dana_dez

I'm both insanely grateful and sad and about 50 other emotions that would take me an hour to list. He will be one that my grandchildren will read about in history books for sure.
Glen Lubbert

Photos from the Steve Jobs Vigil at the San Francisco Apple Store last night. I arrived around 10pm with about 40 people there. the number doubled by the time I left an hour later. http://bit.ly/qrde1R
Rayji2

Very nice, Glen.
I still remember that SE. I too still have the first MAC I purchased - a bulky laptop that weights more than today's 55 inch flat panel TVs. I put Apple in the same category as Pringles potato chip. Once you have one and experience the many layers of "greatness" you can't stop - you must have another. Ironically, there is and only will be one Steve Jobs. He has to rank up there as one of the most influential minds of our lifetime. He changed the way we think and live our daily lives with his genius.
Glen Lubbert

Risk was our game of choice on that old SE. I probably had another 20 memories I didn't post like the time you spilled kool-aid on my first apple laptop!
Rayji2

that wasn't me ... it was James. ;)
Derek M.

I too remember my first Apple experiences fondly...Apple lles in grade school, then a Mac Plus that belonged to a family friend. Whenever we visited, they had to drag me away from that thing...mostly playing Castle Wolfenstein and doodling with MacPaint. Thinking back on those memories, it's why I ended up studying graphic design in college where my Mac experiences continued. Even today, I still get a little twinge of excitement whenever I boot my MacBook Pro and hear the distinctive "bong".
Glen Lubbert

How ingrained in our psyche is that "bong" !
Derek B.

I didn't own my first Mac product until I received a first generation 4 GB iPod Mini (in blue, of course) for my 21st birthday. I'm now on my second iPhone, have three iPods, an iPad and a MacBook.

I would have never gained such an appreciation for technology and design if it weren't for owning my first Mac product.

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