Front and back of Apple’s Japanese Language Kit circa 1993. We were the main consultants crisscrossing the country installing and consulting for North American Japanese transplant companies. The software kit was $249.00 and needed just a Kana/English keyboard. One click on the flag icon and you could seamlessly be working in Japanese or English within the same document. Windows still can’t get this right without locking-up. Kudo’s to the team who dreamed this up and flawlessly executed the final product.

I remember the first time I saw the brochure for the Apple IIe in the fall of 1982. I was working as a cryptologist in Japan and Mainframes were the only computing. When I saw the Graphical Users Interface, (GUI) I knew right then that this was something special. Thank you Xerox PARC for the inspiration, thank you Steve Wozniak for making all the disparate ideas manifest, and thank you Steve Jobs for tirelessly bringing computing as it should be to the masses. You positively changed my life and that of millions.