World Cup Memo Written By Steve Jobs Going Up For Auction 206
New submitter Dega704 writes with an excerpt from El Reg: "Before Steve Jobs came up with the iPhone or even the Apple II, he designed paddles for ball-flipping games at Atari where the scruffy 19-year-old was employed to improve game design. Sotheby's New York will auction off a document dating from Jobs's time there: a 1974 report that Jobs wrote for his boss suggesting ways to improve arcade game World Cup. According to Jobs' biography, his Atari days are most notable for his clashes with colleagues, who he considered to be 'dumb shits'. He was made to work night shifts there partly because he was in a phase of refusing to wash and so he apparently smelt bad, causing complaints from his co-workers. But Jobs obviously did some work at Atari too, with the document laying out his ideas for improving player experience. The typed four-page document includes three circuit designs in pencil and additional designs for the paddles and alignment of players defending a soccer goal."
Re:"refusing to wash.." (Score:1, Informative)
Apple stores have troubleshooting areas called "Genius Bars" where employees with the designation of Genius work.
Re:Steve WHO? (Score:5, Informative)
Putting the thing into a plastic case and embedding the keyboard was Steve's idea. Trying to keep it simple and not suck is still kind of a revolutionary concept.
We're all so willing to live with things that suck. I mean, even OSX sucks in many ways(I prefer it because it sucks less than Windows, and while Linux is great for stability, living with the OS is a kind of suck I can't deal with; even if it sucks less overall).
Re:"refusing to wash.." (Score:3, Informative)
That said, Edison and Jobs being total cunts says nothing about whether or not they were actually geniuses.
Re:Steve WHO? (Score:5, Informative)
I think you mean he COULDN'T have cared less.