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

[Jim Battle]

John Allain wrote:
>>perturbed, he wrote an email to steve jobs to inform him
> 
> 
> Interesting story, but I find it hard to believe that emailing outside
> of academic and military circles was done much at all back in 1985.
> Oh yeah, and within a given company too, but seldom outside it.
> I'd believe this story if it was first set-up with how the two got email 
> in the first place.
> 
> John A.
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> 
> 

The apple store opened in chicago two years ago or so, not 1985.

I used email at a silicon valley company in 1986 to communicate with 
outside parties.  It wasn't particularly academic, nor military.