No objection to any amount of praise that can be given to Steve Jobs, but a couple of minor clarifications to points made here:

The Radio Shack Color Computer came out in 1980, three years after their TRS-80 Model 1, one year after the business-oriented Model II, and about the same time as the much more popular Model III. The Color Computer, with LOGO, never really caught on. I was selling and demonstrating Radio Shack computers at the time, and opened the first retail computer store in Albany NY. 1977 was particularly fun, when I would put a Model One in the passenger seat of my car and drive to trade shows and TV studios to demonstrate it as a contrast to the original Apple Computer.

The BASIC language snippet is perhaps not as appropriate to remember Steve Jobs as some Pascal code would be, since the development of the Lisa featured Pascal and many of us learned that language as a consequence. Despite many years teaching BASIC in those early times of microcomputers, Pascal is still one of my favorites.


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