[GH85Carrera]

I remember "back in the old days" when the internet was new and we still had dial up at work I set up a Wildcat BBS for our customers to send us their files from Harvard Graphics. We made the files into 35 MM slides and they could do a presentation years before Microsoft even thought about PowerPoint.

Anyway one of my regular customers was a spinal surgeon and was working on a new technique he had developed. Almost no one ran an antivirus because there was no need to. At 38,000 baud the bandwidth was not there to do much virus wise. That doctor was fascinated with the subject of antivirus programs. He was asking if I thought the future would have all computers running a anti-virus and if and have regular updates to keep out new viruses. I figured it would happen to the Microsoft and IBM side since there was so many possible variations of software and hardware. The Macs were such a tiny part of the market then they would be safe, like Commodore 64s and the other also rans.

It is ironic that Apple was days away from running out of money and missing payroll when Bill Gates loaned them a bunch of money for a big chunk of stock. When Steve Jobs came back and had his first public new product announcement he started the show with a introduction of Bill Gates on the big screen. The Mac faithful booed him. Bill Gates kept Apple alive only so Microsoft was not a complete monopoly. That was when the feds were looking into breaking up Microsoft.

Now Apple is richer than Microsoft so I guess Gate's plan worked. Only because of Steve Jobs and his designs.