The road that approaches 1 Infinite Loop used to have a different name. I can't remember what it was but now it is also considered to be part of Infinite Loop. It is pretty easy to get the city to change the name of a street if there are no existing addresses on it. Of course, it would be pretty easy for Apple to get anything they want from Cupertino.
I'm trying to get a Mobius Strip Mall built outside of Apple HQ but I'm having trouble with the design plans.
I'd love to be able to wander that repository and maybe fire a few of those babies up.
Hopefully they are not just sitting in boxes. If any of those machines had clock batteries on the logic board, they run the risk of corroding over time and essentially destroying the circuitry.
When I was on the Stanford campus I thought it odd that they had buildings named after Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Obviously there must have been a cash donation made to the university but they still seemed misplaced since there was no connection I could see between Stanford and Gates, Allen and Microsoft. Unlike the buildings named after Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard. I would rather have seen buildings named after Jobs and Wozniak than Gates and Allen because, even though neither Jobs or Wozniak attended Stanford, Apple had a connection with Stanford.
The road that approaches 1 Infinite Loop used to have a different name. I can't remember what it was but now it is also considered to be part of Infinite Loop. It is pretty easy to get the city to change the name of a street if there are no existing addresses on it. Of course, it would be pretty easy for Apple to get anything they want from Cupertino.
Nah, that street name hasn't changed: Mariani Avenue, named after a local farming family (of Croatian ancestry, if I recall correctly).
Apple's old headquarters (back in the Eighties) used to be on Mariani Avenue, but on the opposite side of De Anza Boulevard. I'm pretty certain it was 19100 Mariani Avenue, but hey, that was a long time ago, maybe my memory isn't so strong.
When I was on the Stanford campus I thought it odd that they had buildings named after Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Obviously there must have been a cash donation made to the university but they still seemed misplaced since there was no connection I could see between Stanford and Gates, Allen and Microsoft. Unlike the buildings named after Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard. I would rather have seen buildings named after Jobs and Wozniak than Gates and Allen because, even though neither Jobs or Wozniak attended Stanford, Apple had a connection with Stanford.
Gates and Allen both donated a lot of money to Stanford (despite not having attended Stanford): that's how they got their names on those buildings. As a matter of fact, I believe both gave generously to help finance the construction of the buildings that bear their names.
It's far less common these days for Stanford (or anyone else for that matter) to name a building in someone's honor without a significant donation.
I just assumed it was because of large donations. It just seemed out of place to me as a grad student there as opposed to the buildings named after Hewlett and Packard (who I assumed also made large donations over there lives) which seem very appropriate given their background as graduates and students of Terman there.
My favorite Mac ad was one that was never actually used. In fact, it wasn't even from Apple - it was someone who created the ad themselves. It was the one where the kid has to clean their room, so they sit at their laptop which has a picture of their room. They put everything away in the real room by moving things around on the screen. Anyone know where I can find that?
One unscreened TV ad actually created for Apple involved a PC user blowing away their computer with a shotgun. That was too over-the-top even for Apple. I saw it twice, about twenty years ago, at conferences put on by Guy Kawasaki. I wonder if he's got the only copy. If it had ever aired I'm sure it would have become even more notorious than the lemmings ad.
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The road that approaches 1 Infinite Loop used to have a different name. I can't remember what it was but now it is also considered to be part of Infinite Loop. It is pretty easy to get the city to change the name of a street if there are no existing addresses on it. Of course, it would be pretty easy for Apple to get anything they want from Cupertino.
I'm trying to get a Mobius Strip Mall built outside of Apple HQ but I'm having trouble with the design plans.
I'd love to be able to wander that repository and maybe fire a few of those babies up.
Hopefully they are not just sitting in boxes. If any of those machines had clock batteries on the logic board, they run the risk of corroding over time and essentially destroying the circuitry.
I'm trying to get a Mobius Strip Mall built outside of Apple HQ but I'm having trouble with the design plans.
The inside or the outside?
The road that approaches 1 Infinite Loop used to have a different name. I can't remember what it was but now it is also considered to be part of Infinite Loop. It is pretty easy to get the city to change the name of a street if there are no existing addresses on it. Of course, it would be pretty easy for Apple to get anything they want from Cupertino.
Nah, that street name hasn't changed: Mariani Avenue, named after a local farming family (of Croatian ancestry, if I recall correctly).
Apple's old headquarters (back in the Eighties) used to be on Mariani Avenue, but on the opposite side of De Anza Boulevard. I'm pretty certain it was 19100 Mariani Avenue, but hey, that was a long time ago, maybe my memory isn't so strong.
When I was on the Stanford campus I thought it odd that they had buildings named after Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Obviously there must have been a cash donation made to the university but they still seemed misplaced since there was no connection I could see between Stanford and Gates, Allen and Microsoft. Unlike the buildings named after Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard. I would rather have seen buildings named after Jobs and Wozniak than Gates and Allen because, even though neither Jobs or Wozniak attended Stanford, Apple had a connection with Stanford.
Gates and Allen both donated a lot of money to Stanford (despite not having attended Stanford): that's how they got their names on those buildings. As a matter of fact, I believe both gave generously to help finance the construction of the buildings that bear their names.
It's far less common these days for Stanford (or anyone else for that matter) to name a building in someone's honor without a significant donation.
Yeah, that was a lousy video.
My favorite Mac ad was one that was never actually used. In fact, it wasn't even from Apple - it was someone who created the ad themselves. It was the one where the kid has to clean their room, so they sit at their laptop which has a picture of their room. They put everything away in the real room by moving things around on the screen. Anyone know where I can find that?
One unscreened TV ad actually created for Apple involved a PC user blowing away their computer with a shotgun. That was too over-the-top even for Apple. I saw it twice, about twenty years ago, at conferences put on by Guy Kawasaki. I wonder if he's got the only copy. If it had ever aired I'm sure it would have become even more notorious than the lemmings ad.
but http://www.atarimuseum.com/ is there to not forget that Atari was incubator for lot of great ideas and to not forgot where Steve starts