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Steve Jobs on his motorcycle after returning from his trip to India where he met with Sri Neem Karoli Baba at the Kainchi Ashram. Jobs' guru was a devotee of the Hindu monkey deity Hanuman, the god of courage and of learning.
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Yeah!
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Steve Jobs with the Apple Lisa, the first personal computer with a GUI (Graphical User Interface). Earlier computers were using text-based keyboard commands, and this was the first computer to be visually oriented, requiring the user to interact with symbols rather than words.
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Now, with the Lisa (
Local Integrated Software Architecture), you just point-and-click at tiny pictures on the screen with a small rolling device called a 'Lisa Mouse' (1983). This small, rectangular hand-held device is the evolutionary ancestor to the modern ipod and iphone.
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Original Apple logo (1976)