Thursday, June 24, 2010

The Apple that fell far from the tree

The often used idiom, “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree,” does not apply to Apple Computer co-founder Ronald Wayne.

Ron-wayne Ronald Wayne (pictured), one of the three co-founders of Apple Computer, sold out early for hundreds rather than millions yet refuses to submit to regrets.

The 76-year-old Wayne is two decades older than Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.

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Photo above shows Ron Wayne walking near his Nevada home.

Mr. Wayne lives in remote Pahrump, Nevada. It is a place so near the middle of nowhere that it didn’t get telephones until the 1960s.

He was 42 and chief draftsman at Atari when he first encountered 21-year-old Steve Jobs. It was Wayne who designed the original Apple logo and wrote the original manual.

http://caveviews.blogs.com/cave_news/2010/06/the-apple-that-fell-far-from-the-tree.html

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