I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.

I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II

I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.

But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.

I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.

I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac.

I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.