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

[Teo Zenios]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Battle" <frustum at pacbell.net>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 9:36 PM
Subject: Re: How the Mac was born... supposedly...


> Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, John Foust wrote:
> >
> >
> >>At 02:07 PM 1/11/2005, Computer Collector Newsletter wrote:
> >>
> >>>You were yelled at by Jobs?  Please share the tale with the rest of us.
:)
> >>
> >>This is not a rare event.  I would guess there must be a web site
> >>devoted to such tales.  They happen/ed regularly.
> >
> >
> > I haven't (yet) been yelled at by Jobs but I have been given a dirty
look
> > by Bill Gates.
>
> This is perhaps bad to tell a second hand story, but it is on thread and
> I'll keep it short.
>
> 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
>
>

You shave made him print it out and then go frame the email.
What did your friend the Mac fanatic say about this comment from his idle?