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You know you are get­ting older when you read stor­ies about his­tory, and have played a very minor part in them.

• Apple sales staff were in Hawaii in 1996 when Gasee came to visit Gil Amelio (it was the Asia-Pacific Sales Con­fer­ence). We didn’t see him as he “flew in under the radar” of the media and employees.
• I remem­ber Ellen Han­cock ask­ing the internal crowd about OS altern­at­ives. I spoke pos­it­ively about Unix, and Sol­aris. Re-reading the his­tory… I didn’t help out much!
• See­ing a pho­to­graph of Rhaps­ody run­ning on a Power Mac from the NeXT cam­pus in March 1997.
• WebOb­jects. What the RoR crowd now think of as the pin­nacle of MVC (model-view-controller) on the web just echoes NeXT’s Open­Step UI devel­op­ment from the late 1980s.
• The 1997 Mac­World con­fer­ence in San Fran­cisco (which I atten­ded, includ­ing the now-famous key­note) with Woz and Steve Jobs as guest speaker was a major love-in