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[bowonwing]

Steve Jobs dead at 56. Life is strange. R.I.P. Steve and God Bless your family.

Jobs was one of the creators of "Silicon Valley" here in the Bay Area along with Woz and the Apple team. He got fired from and came back after many years to lead it to glory.

Of course if Stanford University where not in Palo Alto, neither would Silicon Valley be here either (I went to Cal so I am no Stanford fan). Not too many people know this but in the 1950's and 1960's Stanford University recruited technology companies, one the first was HP, which has since lost it's way. And now there is Silicon Valley in the South Bay, which isn't really a valley, and has spread all over the Bay Area, the East Bay, West Bay and North Bay.

But if any company typified Silicon Valley it was Apple. Started in a garage, like HP, and survived attack after attack by "The Dark Side," i.e. Microsoft, to go on to tech glory.

I have always bought Apple products, I'm writing this on a MacBook Pro and I have bought Apple computers since the 1990's. I swore to never support Microsoft if I could help it.

Thank goodness for Steve Jobs and Apple. He will be missed by all---