How the Mac was born... supposedly...

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Wed Jan 12 09:10:13 CST 2005


On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Jim Battle wrote:

> A good friend/mac fanatic since 1985 was quite excited that an apple
> store was opening in chicago.  he went just about every day for a week.
>   after a couple weeks he called the store at opening time to ask if
> they had something or other in stock.  they were supposed to open at
> 10am.  he called at 10am, and the phone rang and rang.  he called again,
> same thing.  finally, at 10:05 someone finally answered.  perturbed, he
> wrote an email to steve jobs to inform him that the chicago store was
> slacking off.  the reply came minutes later, personally from steve jobs:
>
> 	Dennis, you are an asshole.
>
> 	Steve

I'd have to agree with Steve on this one.

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