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The First Apple Tech Support Call Ever
Stan Veit
—first editor Computer Shopper—has a fascinating first-person account on the very early years of Apple, starting with what may be the very first Apple tech support call ever, answered by Steve Jobs himself.“See! It works,” Dave told me.”What does it do?” I asked.
“Nothing! It needs a keyboard. I’ll get one,” Dave told me.
Dave came back with one of our SWTPC keyboards and wired it in after studying the schematic.
“Don’t work,” he told me. “Better call ‘em.”
So I called the number listed in the paperwork and asked for Steve.
“Which one?” the young man at the other end asked.
“The fast talker,” I told him.
“Oh, Steve Jobs. Wait a minute.”
Steve came on the line, and I told him the keyboard didn’t work.
“What kind of keyboard did you use? Southwest? Nah, they won’t work. I’ll send a good one and some software tomorrow.”
“Wait.” I told him I didn’t need it FedExed next day, I could wait. But too late, he was gone.
http://digg.com/apple/Hi_Steve_Jobs_Here_The_First_Apple_Tech_Support_Call_Ever#
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The Future of SQL in a SaaS world: Announcing Zoho Cl...
There are in particular 3 things that stand out about Zoho CloudSQL:
It’s the first technology that allows customers to interact with their data on the cloud, from another cloud application or from an on-premises one through real SQL.
It supports multiple SQL dialects. We support all the major (and even some not so major) ones: ANSI, Oracle, SQL Server, IBM DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Informix.
With our JDBC/ODBC drivers, developers can access data in the cloud just as easily as if it were stored in a local database. -
First look at Windows 7’s User Interface
At PDC today, Microsoft gave the first public demonstration of Windows 7. Until now, the company has been uncharacteristically secretive about its new OS; over the past few months, Microsoft has let on that the taskbar will undergo a number of changes, and that many bundled applications would be unbundled and shipped with Windows Live instead. There have also been occasional screenshots of some of the new applets like Calculator and Paint. Now that the covers are finally off, the scale of the new OS becomes clear. The user interface has undergone the most radical overhaul and update since the introduction of Windows 95 thirteen years ago.
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Amazon launches WindowShop: A 3D shopping experience
WindowShop is a new content-viewing layer for Amazon.com. If you’ve ever used Cooliris’ PicLens before, you’ll feel right at home, as WindowShop turns Amazon’s selection of online goods into a giant wall, which you can scroll back and forth across, and zoom in -
1002HA, still mum about next week’s model
Still haven’t found an Eee PC to your liking? Then perhaps ASUS’s new 10-inch Eee PC 1002HA model will be more to your liking, with it bringing some of the S101’s stylings to the company’s standard 1000 series. Otherwise, you can expect most of the usual specs that now haunt our dreams, including a 1.6GHz Atom N270 processor,1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive and, apparently, a two-cell, 4200 mAh battery. No word on a release ’round here just yet, but it looks like this one will be available in Europe in the not too distant future for €449, or about $565.http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/asus-rolls-out-eee-pc-1002ha-still-mum-about-next-weeks-model/
