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SJ is famous for his "reality distortion field"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_distortion_field
MA

> On Apr 5, 2009, at 4:22 PM, Funny NYPD wrote:
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> "as his "reality distortion field.""
> Do you have more story on this? Very interesting.
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> Funny N.
> Au Group Electronics, http://www.AuElectronics.com
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> From: Michael Algernon <pic@nope9.com>
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public. <piclist@mit.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, April 5, 2009 6:06:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [OT] professionalism was EE Where have all the  
> technicians (and jobs) gone?
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> --->  From http://www.answers.com/topic/steve-jobs
>  In 1977 the former Intel executive Mike Markkula, a venture
> capitalist, invested in Apple, becoming its chairman of the board and
> bringing in outsiders to help govern the company. Jobs persuaded a
> successful publicist, Regis McKenna, to join Apple. That year the
> Apple II was introduced. It took only about four hours for a purchaser
> to set it up and have it running, and it could run some business
> programs, reducing to minutes from hours certain accounting tasks.
> With a canny sales campaign created by McKenna, and Jobs's own
> magnetic personality helping persuade corporate buyers, the Apple II
> became the first successful mass-market personal computer.
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> Jobs had to have been a concern for McKenna: Jobs had long hair and a
> scruffy beard, and he usually wore jeans when meeting the
> conservatively dressed businessmen who had the power to order dozens
> of Apple IIs at a time. But Jobs was charismatic. When he spoke of
> what his machines could do and of the future the machines would shape,
> he created what came to be known as his "reality distortion field."
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