‘Yeah, that was me. I’m Steve Jobs.’”
In October 1984, a 29-year-old Steve Jobs attended a birthday party for Sean Lennon, son of Yoko Ono and the late John Lennon. Steve’s gift to the nine-year-old boy was a Macintosh computer (it had debuted earlier that year). As Steve showed Sean how to use the mouse, and a program called MacPaint, a few party guests gathered, gaping at this amazing machine.
“Can I try?” asked Andy Warhol. Jobs gave Warhol a quick lesson, but Warhol didn’t get how to use the mouse. He lifted and waved it, as if it were a conductor’s baton. Jobs placed his hand on Warhol’s and guided it along the floor. Finally, Warhol began drawing, staring at the “pencil” as it drew on the screen.
In his diary, Warhol later wrote, “I said that once some man had been calling me a lot wanting to give me one [a Macintosh], but I’d never called him back or something, and then the kid looked up and said, ‘Yeah, that was me. I’m Steve Jobs.’”
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