The high price was likely due to the rare documents and packaging offered in the sale in addition to the computer, including the original packaging ( with the return label showing Steve Jobs ' parents ' address, the original Apple Computer Inc ' headquarters ' being their garage ), a personally typed and signed letter from Jobs ( answering technical questions about the computer ), and the original invoice showing ' Steven ' as the salesman.

Loyd Blankenship, the managing editor of Steve Jackson Games ' former Illuminati BBS acknowledged that Steffan received his wish, and kept the original conversion article online.

The charges against three of the original defendants, Ruth Schwartz ( owner of Mordam Records ), Steve Boudreau ( a distributor involved in supplying Frankenchrist to the Los Angeles Wherehouse store ), and Salvatore Alberti ( owner of the factory where the record was pressed ), were dismissed for lack of evidence.

The original design is credited to Brad McQuaid, Steve Clover, and Bill Trost.

Many of the original EverQuest team, including Brad McQuaid, Steve Clover and Geoffrey Zatkin had left SOE by 2002.

According to Steve Wilhite, the creator of the GIF format, the original pronunciation deliberately echoes the American peanut butter brand, Jif, and the employees of CompuServe would often say " Choosy developers choose GIF ", spoofing this brand's television commercials.

* Steve Wozniak Discusses the original meaning of hacker

Illuminati: New World Order ( INWO ) is a collectible card game ( CCG ) that was released in 1995 by Steve Jackson Games, based on their original boxed game Illuminati, which in turn was inspired by The Illuminatus!

Many of the original cast of Saturday Night Live came from The Second City and the franchise has produced such comedy stars as Mike Myers, Tina Fey, Bob Odenkirk, Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Eugene Levy, Steve Carell, Chris Farley, Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi.

As programming chief, Robert W. Pittman recruited and managed a team for the launch that included Tom Freston ( who succeeded Pittman as CEO of MTV networks ), Fred Seibert, John Sykes, Carolyn Baker ( original head of talent and acquisition ), Marshall Cohen ( original head of research ), Gail Sparrow ( of talent and acquisition ), Sue Steinberg ( executive producer ), Julian Goldberg, Steve Lawrence, Geoff Bolton studio producers and MTV News writers / AP Liz Nealon, Nancy LaPook and Robin Zorn, Steve Casey ( creator of the name " MTV " and its first program director ), Marcy Brahman, Ronald E. " Buzz " Brindle, and Robert Morton.

The original Macintosh system software was partially based on the Lisa OS, previously released by Apple for the Lisa computer in 1983 and, as part of an agreement allowing Xerox to buy shares in Apple at a favorable rate, it also used concepts from the Xerox PARC Xerox Alto, which Steve Jobs and several other Macintosh team members had previewed.

The PDP-1 was also the original hardware for playing history's first game on a minicomputer, Steve Russell's Spacewar !.

Their original lead singer, Steve Hill, died in October 2005, aged 52, of liver cancer.

Once again the game system was replaced, this time with the GURPS system from Steve Jackson Games, but the setting was returned to the one laid out in the original Traveller, albeit as an alternate history in which the assassination and subsequent fall of the Third Imperium never happened.

The background story of the original novel and the later series is the crash of former astronaut Steve Austin in a “ lifting body ” craft, shown in the opening credits of the show.

The original actors set to play Mary and Steve were Jennifer Love Hewitt and Brendan Fraser, respectively.

The traceroute manual page states that the original traceroute program was written by Van Jacobson in 1987 from a suggestion by Steve Deering, with particularly cogent suggestions or fixes from C. Philip Wood, Tim Seaver and Ken Adelman.

The Fighting Fantasy gamebooks were created by British writers Steve Jackson ( not to be confused with the US-based game designer of the same name ) and Ian Livingstone, co-founders of Games Workshop, and provide an original twist on traditional fiction in that the reader takes control of the story's protagonist, being required to make choices that will affect the outcome.

There were 59 books in the original series, beginning with The Warlock of Firetop Mountain ( Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone, 1982 ) and concluding with Curse of the Mummy ( Jonathan Green, 1995 ).

The reimagined Hawaii Five-0 uses the same principal character names as the original, and the new Steve McGarrett's late father's vintage 1974 Mercury Marquis is the actual specimen driven by Lord in the original series's final seasons.

The evening program was opened by the Jazz Three, a Newport group consisting of Steve Budieshein on bass, Jack Warner, drums, and Don Cook, piano.

" Steve " Flash " Juon of RapReviews. com claimed that this initiated the ultimate breakup of the group.

With the main aims in mind, the group launched the LocAle scheme in 2007 which was developed by Steve Westby of the Nottingham branch to help promote locally brewed beers and also help with environmental issues.

Only five years later, Mileti's group sold the team for $ 11 million to a syndicate headed by trucking magnate Steve O ' Neill and including former general manager and owner Gabe Paul.

In 1995, musicologist Steve Knopoff observed Yirrkala women performing djatpangarri songs that are traditionally performed by men and in 1996, ethnomusicologist Elizabeth MacKinley reported women of the Yanyuwa group giving public performances.

The concept of furry originated at a science fiction convention in 1980, when a drawing of a character from Steve Gallacci ’ s Albedo Anthropomorphics initiated a discussion of anthropomorphic characters in science fiction novels, which in turn initiated a discussion group that met at science fiction and comics conventions.

Development on the Hurd began in 1990 after an abandoned kernel attempt in 1986, based on the research TRIX operating system developed by Professor Steve Ward and his group at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science ( LCS ).

Although written by Steve Crocker, the RFC emerged from an early working group discussion between Steve Crocker, Steve Carr and Jeff Rulifson.

* Sulpher, a musical group composed of Rob Holliday and Steve Monti

After Steve Hackett left the group in 1977, they became a crossover, arena rock band.

In addition to Amos, the group was composed of Steve Caton ( who would later play guitars on all her subsequent albums until 1999 ), drummer Matt Sorum, bass player Brad Cobb and, for a short time, keyboardist Jim Tauber.

The film stars Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, and Horst Buchholz who play a group of seven American gunmen who are hired to protect a small agricultural village in Mexico from a group of marauding native bandits led by Calvera, portrayed by Eli Wallach.

In response to a submission from Arbortext, Inso, and Microsoft, a W3C working group on XSL started operating in December 1997, with Sharon Adler and Steve Zilles as co-chairs, with James Clark acting as editor ( and unofficially as chief designer ), and Chris Lilley as the W3C staff contact.

Simultaneously, a group of ex-employees and product owners collaborated to form The Synclavier Company, primarily as a maintenance organization for existing customers, but with an eye to adapting Synclavier software for stand-alone personal computer use, while in Europe the previously profitable, but now motherless, NED Europe is currently run by ex-head of European operations, Steve Hills and is still trading to this day ( 2005 ) in London, England as Synclavier Europe

The couple returned to Los Angeles and quickly became part of a social group that included some of the most successful young people in the film industry, including Steve McQueen, Warren Beatty, Mia Farrow, Peter Sellers, Jacqueline Bisset, Leslie Caron, Joan Collins, Joanna Pettet, Laurence Harvey, Peter Fonda and Jane Fonda, older film stars like Henry Fonda, Kirk Douglas, Yul Brynner and Danny Kaye, musicians such as Jim Morrison and the Mamas & the Papas, and record producer Terry Melcher and his girlfriend Candice Bergen.

In addition to the size of the group, Steve Gillon has suggested that one thing that sets the baby boomers apart from other generational groups is the fact that " almost from the time they were conceived, Boomers were dissected, analyzed, and pitched to by modern marketers, who reinforced a sense of generational distinctiveness.

Another group of 80 legislators supported an amendment offered by Steve King of Iowa, seeking to strip provisions from the Act that required that translators or multilingual ballots be provided for U. S. citizens who do not speak English.

Following the 2006 season the franchise was acquired by the group PS and J Professional Baseball Club, LLC headed by Steve Malliet, an experienced minor league executive in both affiliated and independent baseball.

On January 22, 2011, the team's ownership group claimed it had lost US $ 130 million in the last six years, partially as a result of an ongoing lawsuit with former partner Steve Belkin.

Cocker was involved in a number of one-offs and side projects, including the group Relaxed Muscle with Jason Buckle and the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire where he fronted a group which included Steve Mackey and members of Radiohead.

The group consists of Peter Bernstein ( guitar ), Bill Charlap ( piano ), Ravi Coltrane ( tenor saxophone ), Lewis Nash ( drums ), Nicholas Payton ( trumpet ), Peter Washington ( bass ), and Steve Wilson ( alto saxophone, flute ).