You may find it strange that I would dedicate this space this week to a guy I never met. However, I feel as if I knew him the majority of my life.
Jobs, who passed away last week, was an American computer entrepreneur and innovator. He was a co-founder of Apple Computer. Many of the products that we use in everyday life can be contributed to his ingenuity. Have you jogged while listening to your iPod? Or do you have an iPad or iPhone? Thank Jobs.
Steve Jobs changed lives
In a lesser-known role, Jobs was also very instrumental in the success Disney/Pixar. The duo made movies such as Cars and Toy Story.
Back in the 1980s, when I was beginning to work at the newspaper with my parents, we had machines called Compugraphics that we used to create our news copy. These machines imprinted text onto a film-type paper and this paper was ran through a chemical process, waxed, cut out and then pieced together like a puzzle to design pages. Compugraphic machines were very large and required a lot of effort to produce something as simple as a printed piece of paper. During the 80s my parents invested in a new Apple computer system that would operate or network throughout the entire office and allow us to create news copy. The copy would simply print out to a laser printer; no more chemical processes. Along with the new Apple computers came another company named Adobe. Between the two companies they practically revolutionized the printing industry. In a matter of years, Apple’s and Adobe’s technology allowed newspapers and other businesses in the graphic arts industry to do away with many manual processes.
Today all layout and design is performed in our office on Apple Computers. In fact I am writing this article on a really cool Apple 23” iMac. I will later take this editorial and import it into a special Adobe software program and make an entire page on this same computer. This may not sound that amazing, but 20 - 25 years ago we never thought that we’d be producing the newspaper on a computer.
I guess it seems like I grew up with Apple and Jobs. These influences had a lot to do with my choice in my profession. Thanks Steve for bringing your ideas to real world applications. Your ideas truly changed many lives.
We need more visionaries and entrepreneurs like Jobs in this country. I hope that our government and politicians (that seem to produce nothing aside from more taxes and more bureaucracy) will continue to promote the entrepreneurial spirit of this great country instead of holding it back with even more government interference.
-Jamie Gardner
Back in the 1980s, when I was beginning to work at the newspaper with my parents, we had machines called Compugraphics that we used to create our news copy. These machines imprinted text onto a film-type paper and this paper was ran through a chemical process, waxed, cut out and then pieced together like a puzzle to design pages. Compugraphic machines were very large and required a lot of effort to produce something as simple as a printed piece of paper. During the 80s my parents invested in a new Apple computer system that would operate or network throughout the entire office and allow us to create news copy. The copy would simply print out to a laser printer; no more chemical processes. Along with the new Apple computers came another company named Adobe. Between the two companies they practically revolutionized the printing industry. In a matter of years, Apple’s and Adobe’s technology allowed newspapers and other businesses in the graphic arts industry to do away with many manual processes.
Today all layout and design is performed in our office on Apple Computers. In fact I am writing this article on a really cool Apple 23” iMac. I will later take this editorial and import it into a special Adobe software program and make an entire page on this same computer. This may not sound that amazing, but 20 - 25 years ago we never thought that we’d be producing the newspaper on a computer.
I guess it seems like I grew up with Apple and Jobs. These influences had a lot to do with my choice in my profession. Thanks Steve for bringing your ideas to real world applications. Your ideas truly changed many lives.
We need more visionaries and entrepreneurs like Jobs in this country. I hope that our government and politicians (that seem to produce nothing aside from more taxes and more bureaucracy) will continue to promote the entrepreneurial spirit of this great country instead of holding it back with even more government interference.
-Jamie Gardner
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