The State of Software
One of Bell Laboratories people involved in the project was Ken Thompson. He liked the potential MULTICS had, but felt it was too complex and that the same thing could be done in simpler way. In 1969 he wrote the first version of Unix, called UNICS. UNICS stood for Uniplexed Operating and Computing System. Although the operating system has changed, the name stuck and was eventually shortened to Unix.
Several application developers have added in-webpage video demos of their programs. I’m surprised that not everyone has done so. Instead of asking a potential customer to download a trial version (or worse, to just buy it) and then install it, this approach lets them see what it’s like to use the application without any effort on their part. While more complex programs can’t be completely demonstrated in a short clip, it can still give viewers a sense of how easy it is to use, how quickly it operates etc.
Of all the computers that Apple has ever made there’s only one that Steve Jobs had to sell his car to finance — It was sold for $905,000 in 2014 at the auction.
The Apple-1, as the machine is known, is one of fifty hand-assembled by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak in Jobs’ family garage in 1976. It was the first pre-assembled computer ever made (they usually came as kits) and is credited by many tech historians as kick-starting the PC revolution.