not before we get started I I think

but you know there are some pioneers of of course

we have the pioneers that you're on stage but there were some

but the really important thing here is it not

they do we just saw and a couple more here in the audience so

I meet a poor who is a regular he could you stand up

hello

and fred get that is to let not come easily for mister knight fred

it is in the road but I do want to recognize up

our fellow journalist French wonderful fortune who did the last to my knowledge the left

and energy these guys did it was

not a statement was a fortune magazine interview brenda either through the roof York

can you estimate

so like it started I'm I was asked that there's a lot of a not a lot of have quite a thing

in on the plaza press I think that

he wanted said

and fact I do think it's a nasty is what do you think each has contributed to the computer

and technology industries thank you Steve for bell

thanks Chris

we'll build built the first software company

in the industry

I think he built the first all for coming before anybody

really in our industry US offer company once except for these kids

that's huge

I was really in the business model think that pursuing turned out to be the one that

work really well you know for the industry

so

I think that that the the biggest thing was bill was

really focused on saw for before almost anybody else

it had a clue

the that it was really the software

as a that's what I see and lot of other things you can say that that's the high road a bit

and I think building the company's really hard

and

the players

it requires year

greatest persuasive abilities to hire the best people you can keep them

%uh keeping that your company keep working you know

the best word to the wise hopefully

bill's been able to stay with it for

all these years

bill about

the country steven apple

well personally fair trial

not think Steve jobs up

pat

with what's being done is quite

but not all in if you look back to nineteen seventy seven

that helpful to computer the idea

it did it would be a mass market machine

%uh huh

now the bat that was made there by apple uniquely they were other people apart but the idea

that

this could be

the an incredible on power and phenomenon

apple pursued that jury

and then

among the most fun things we did the math it was the macintosh council risky

and people may not remember that apple really got the company

lisa hadn't done that well in partners some people were saying okay that several proposals

good

but the

that team that the building within the company

a pursue that

%uh even some days it felt a little ahead of its time up at a record up for the gif

Barack and in the twenty K cap

I mean I think the defendant

yeah

he gave a speech wants which is one of my favorites three talked about in a certain

sense to rebuild the products that we want to use our south up

instead he's really pursue that with incredible to houston elegance that

is that a a huge impact on the industry

%uh and his ability to

always

come around and figure out where that next step should be

on been phenomenal and what happened literally was failing

he went back in

marie infuse the

%uh inundation

and in risk-taking that

been but also the industry's benefited immensely

up from his his work with both unlikely to be part of it but

you know i'd say he's contributed as much spending

%uh we've also we also both incredibly lucky

to had

great partners

the we started the companies with

and we've attracted great people

everything that's been done and microsoft and apple them by just

remarkable people

none of which is enough year

today I you're sort of the I have no doubt that

you're certain here so you can wear your distance for all those on the you know where we are

on her table

so bill mention the happened to you in

in nineteen seventy seven and

thirty years ago and there were a couple of other computers with

which were %uh

in get the idea that

average people might be able to use them in looking back on it

and really average average person might not have been able to use them of by today's standards

but it certainly broaden the base of who could use computers

I actually looked in Indiana

at an apple and from nineteen seventy eight it was a print that rejection

and %uh

and it said thousands of people have discovered the apple computer that

and he also said

you don't want to buy one of these computers we put a cartridge it

and I think that was that's a a reference to the one of the party or

something you wanted to you could write your own programs

and so the world and obviously

it's as though he has a very strange as that that we have one more

it was in the kitchen

and there is a old all of what it looked like of the wife

and she was taking recipes on the computer with the husband looking on approvingly the

of I think

now how did that work for the twelfth

so on

but but just think back to you I I knew the story might so far

nineteen seventy seven east I think apple start of the year for instance if the facts

are

the north at its word ready to live

that now than we did debate that the basic and seventy five

mostly will of at some people here but I don't think most people know that there was actually

a man

%uh so much stuff software and that apple to computer

to want to talk about

what happened there have that

how that occurred

yeah very

the in the health care and a few other companies at about twenty four the done

there's some change but the seventy seven

group included that tax

up here as a barometer of the popular press

onto your CD the apple two

the regional level to be thinking in terms of basic

nothing to do with

but that was a fourteen point one

%uh where

and then most important laws on that

I like mate

and you can tell this story

meanwhile clients

my partner was that I was that it wasn't brilliant brilliant guy

he writes this basic

it is like the best basic on the planet get that stuff that no other basics ever done

that the right flank their messages that finds the typings that

it's perfect in every way

except for one thing

which is is it just six points that's not it's not flowing

and still work

getting a lot of input the people want this basic to be floating point

and what worked and what please please make this point 'cause we got to keep learning

balmy get back wants to make this one point

and he's never got don't want care about people and week

he helps them learn to live with this all just become a pretty tight in

he's never got around to making one point

what usual mysteries of life I don't know

yes

and so you know microsoft had this very popular really good for the point is it that we end

up going to them

send help

and and how much was that I think your thoughts rose thirty one thousand dollars that are

you for that floating point basic I feel left out was spent two days they're getting the

cassette

because I think that in many ways that people start things of night

and

that was fun

I think the most fun up

this is later up the first of all most of us haven't felt tell the story because one

that was later and anything not month

no it's not