Wow. The Jobs Reality Distortion field existed even in 1984. The crowd was going apeshit over a pitiful demo--the Amiga was already being shown to press in '84 and was released less than a year later...I certainly knew that the Mac wasn't all that impressive at the time. My Commodore 64 even had 16 colors and could talk using SAM, and the C64 scene demos blew away everything that Mac slideshow was doing. But the crowd is simply orgasmic.

How does he do it? What is it that Apple people are seeing that makes them so excited by everything Jobs demos? Really, it's something I've never understood...I see overpriced underpowered machines, and yet, for fans, every Apple product is a little piece of heaven.

So, obviously, I'm managing to miss the point of the article pretty resoundingly, but oh, well.