Geek Posted December 30, 2011 Posted December 30, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/steve-jobs-ibm-finger.jpg" alt="Steve Jobs gives IBM the Finger" title="steve-jobs-ibm-finger" width="620" height="683" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25444" /></p> <p>This is a classic picture of a young Steve Jobs giving the finger to an IBM sign in 1983, it’s been circulating again after all these years thanks to Macintosh co-creator <a href="https://plus.google.com/117840649766034848455/posts/g8dqNasKdni">Andy Hertzfeld</a> who posted the high res copy to <a href="https://plus.google.com/110005238800692664883/posts">Google+</a>. Here’s the text that was posted along with the amusing image:</p> <blockquote><p>In memoriam for Steve Jobs as 2011 draws to a close, here’s one more rare photo that illustrates his rebellious spirit. In December 1983, a few weeks before the Mac launch, we made a quick trip to New York City to meet with Newsweek, who was considering doing a cover story on the Mac. The photo was taken spontaneously as we walked around Manhattan by Jean Pigozzi, a wild French jet setter who was hanging out with us at the time. Somehow I ended up with a copy of it. My editor begged me to include it in my book, but I was too timid to ask for permission, especially since IBM was still making CPUs for Apple at the time.</p></blockquote> <p>The book is his “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1449316247/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=oxd-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1449316247">Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=oxd-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1449316247" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />“, which tells the story of how the original Macintosh was created. That subject was briefly discussed in the recent Steve Jobs biography as well.</p> <p>The picture demonstrates the competitive nature of <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/steve-jobs/">Jobs</a> and <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/apple-history/">early Apple</a>, and although the image has been around a while this is the first higher resolution copy to surface. In the early days of Apple, IBM was largely considered the companies biggest competitor and enemy of sorts, as is <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/12/29/apple-ghostbusters-spoof-video-1984/">demonstrated in the Ghostbusters spoof</a> and of course the classic <a href=" Superbowl commercial that launched the first Mac.</p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/j8zrbbUfFBquJUdcmSuUCqcFng8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/j8zrbbUfFBquJUdcmSuUCqcFng8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/j8zrbbUfFBquJUdcmSuUCqcFng8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/j8zrbbUfFBquJUdcmSuUCqcFng8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=bdpGks5GnLE:JhSUdS42vbQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=bdpGks5GnLE:JhSUdS42vbQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=bdpGks5GnLE:JhSUdS42vbQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=bdpGks5GnLE:JhSUdS42vbQ:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=bdpGks5GnLE:JhSUdS42vbQ:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=bdpGks5GnLE:JhSUdS42vbQ:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=bdpGks5GnLE:JhSUdS42vbQ:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/bdpGks5GnLE" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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