New $1 US coins to feature Steve Jobs and Cray-1 supercomputer — US Mint's 2026 American Innovation Program to memorialize computing history

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Bronzebeard @lemmy.zip 5d ago
Jobs wasn't innovative, he knew innovative people and took their credit. He was a businessman.
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  Hawk @lemmy.dbzer0.com 4d ago
  The fact you believe this just proves how big of a scam artist he was.
  His biggest success (and scam) was how he sold himself as being some tech god, which is still believed by many even this long after his death.
  
  Bronzebeard @lemmy.zip 4d ago
  He worked very hard to make you think this, yeah. Meanwhile all the people doing the work remained pretty obscure.
redsand @lemmy.dbzer0.com 5d ago
Guy died of cancer because he thought he knew better than doctors. What a fucking idiot.
- slaneesh_is_right @lemmy.org 5d ago
  So... The perfect face for a us currency
themeatbridge @lemmy.world 5d ago
Steve Jobs was the Edison of personal computing.
- kata1yst @sh.itjust.works 5d ago
  Jobs was a glorified salesman. Edison was an oligarch notorious for lying, cheating, stealing, and his complete lack of ethics and morals.
  I'm absolutely no fan of Jobs but Edison was the bigger bastard.
  
  themeatbridge @lemmy.world 5d ago
  
  Jobs took credit for everyone else's work. He presented himself as a visionary and a creator, when he was mostly just a liar and a thief.
  Maybe Edison was worse. I'm not saying Jobs was worse than Edison. I'm saying Jobs fabricated a legacy that a lot of people still believe, and will believe for a long time.
  
  Corkyskog @sh.itjust.works 5d ago
  Wasn't Woz really the brain behind it all?
Ascrod @midwest.social 5d ago
Were Sacagawea and Susan B. Anthony too woke?
ZoteTheMighty @lemmy.zip 4d ago
If only there was a person who actually had anything to do with the Cray 1 they could put on it instead? Maybe that person will even share the name with the computer?
It gets worse the more you think about it. Cray and Jobs had completely opposing paradigms for how to develop computers. Cray was always innovating and providing capability, Jobs was always simplifying and burying low-level tools.
GreenKnight23 @lemmy.world 5d ago
gross.
fuck Steve Jobs.
Maeve @kbin.earth 4d ago
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AmazingAwesomator @lemmy.world 5d ago
is this heads/tails? i dont think steve jobs had nothing to do with cray-1?
- Null User Object @lemmy.world 4d ago
  So, you think Jobs had something to do with cray-1? What was it?
  
  BreadstickNinja @lemmy.world 3d ago
  He's clearly saying he doesn't think Jobs was related to Cray. The double negative is likely unintentional and English is not everyone's first language.
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