Jobs Mike Muller know when is the last 1970s. In the courtyard of his home in Woodside, Mueller was wearing a blue T-shirt, recalled that he and Jobs in Italy a person riding a bicycle, walking in the mountain scene. Like today, with the California sun.
In 1976, the Mill is located in Southern California Datanetics when the general manager, the main keyboard, printer and monitor. Primarily for his keyboard and desktop computing services to the cash register, when people had no idea of the computer completely, mentioning the word first thought was the piano.
Muller and Mike talk about his story of Steve Jobs
One day, Steve Jobs came looking for him, said, to help Apple to do it, but not to someone else after the production of things. At that time Mill has called TKC (The Keyboard Company), many partners. However, he considered a moment, he agreed. And just the company also sold it to Apple, they would become Apple’s VP. Thousand is nearly a decade.
The early 1980s, they start work or day and night. Open every Tuesday morning meeting to seven, easy for her time, will fight a few.
The old Apple keyboard layout
Soon, improved over the standard keyboard into the Apple II, orders surge in Apple’s channel is also pretty cool, the sales of 50,000 a month (and today is quite different nature). They find ways to Mill on the APPLE III numeric keypad into one. In fact at the time, even the keyboard to switch the letters are very challenging thing, accidentally press A to come out two or three, which requires not only technical, but also involves costs. But not to discuss the possibility Jobs basic, but very clearly stated his desire to be very specific.
Sometimes, the idea of Steve Jobs has become fast, the first half hour, he agreed that parts of these machines have standardized on it, they act quickly when the team has already begun to discuss the implementation of the time, less than half an hour, he suddenly appeared at the door, saying, I had a new idea, we have to do something different.
In them, he had never seen Steve Jobs who yell at them. Muller smart people do not feel angry, it is best to have a very quiet shocking.
He said that Steve Jobs always know what they want, and then focused to complete. From the start Apple is the case.
When you first see the CD, Jobs picked up one, which will only keep five songs. He inserted into the huge CD player, came back across the board table, told us that, look, this thing will become the future!
This is a physical version of the old Apple keyboard
That time, he has been inside the store wondering what it means. His vision, often through time, to directly see the results of his imagination. From now on view, is Steve Jobs, through his product, single-handedly sent the end of the CD.
80 years, a lot of new things suddenly came out. In the technology industry, has always been particularly fast iteration. Only 400KB of memory was a street near five-inch disk, Apple accelerate the development, did not take long to 20MB of disk drives come out, but then this thing does not like being the Macintosh team. Jobs on the Mueller said, Mike, Sony said they will let 400KB six months into 800KB, 20MB of things we do not need this, they sell it.
All sold out.
Mueller said that even getting the keyboard easy to use, Jobs has wanted one thing: only the screen, no keyboard. No longer do not need those keys.
Jobs with Mueller said one day, walking, I heard an interesting thing, let’s go and see. They came to a real risk animation room, not far from the Golden Gate Bridge, the house is very small, only three people inside. Jobs and Muller three monitors sitting before the computer appears to see the sea, and sea breeze blowing, the waves flying on the screen to life. They both are very excited. Three to do the animation, a small laboratory. Very happy to help them demonstrate. Steve Jobs to see not just what the animation. He bought the lab, it later became Pixar. Will have Toy Story.
In 1981, Muller lived in Newport Beach. Steve Jobs trying to convince Mueller moved to live near Los Gatos. Jobs to go along with Muller to his Los Gatos home, a large Spanish-style architecture. Yard parked a black BMW bike (he rarely hit that car, just like it’s design), the table next to the only two chairs. A white grand piano. Go inside empty. Several days later, Steve Jobs has now moved to Mill neighborhood, is also a BMW, is also very little furniture, a piano. This is the time of his life like, simple, small, focused.
In 1986, Jobs left Apple in 1987, Muller left. In 1996, Steve Jobs came back as a consultant, Muller hear is the first piece, he entered the conference room, see the white board on 14 production lines, holding a good number of strokes of the cross on, turned around, only the next four. Mueller said these pork on a skewer Steve Jobs, Apple saved from the death line.
October 2, 2011, Sunday, Mill and his friends go to a theater. Speaking Jobs. October 6, they learned the death of Steve Jobs. Mueller said he was a good man.