Ask HN: Was anyone working at Apple during Steve Jobs' return in 1997?
I was there in 1999 as OS X was being developed, and the beta was just about to be released. I was building another product that was released at MacWorld in 2000 (and still exists today)!<p>I have a lot of funny stories.  Steve didn&#x27;t like our data center rack mounts being silver, we had to pull them all out and spray paint them black, because silver just wasn&#x27;t acceptable, in a datacenter. That was my first day at work. And no, I&#x27;m not a datacenter employee, everyone on the team did everything, there were just very few of us.<p>We had to work from about 10am to about 3 or 4 am every day to make the deadline, we sometimes got Sundays off. There was a lot of rage and anger at many management levels.<p>Steve would get a question about a two button mouse at every company meeting, he was super pissed every time about the question. We enjoyed trolling him.<p>Steve&#x27;s attention to detail was unbelievable. I once witnessed him make a team work overnight just to move an icon 10 pixels to the left.<p>The guy had a vision that seems unparalleled. He was able to figure out the concept of &quot;cloud&quot; well before its time, and make a shift towards that.<p>Of course, he was an supernatural presenter. I witnessed him present through some really messed up errors in live demos and no one I asked in the audience afterwards even noticed the errors.<p>It was an insane work environment, never seen anything like it.