Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 29th Aug 2008 20:59 UTC
Quite often, Steve Jobs is given all the credit for the original Macintosh - but in reality, it wasn't Steve Jobs who made the largest contribution to the project; in fact, he didn't even come up with the idea. Jef Raskin envisioned an easy-to-use computer with a graphical user interface, and somewhere in 1979 he got the green light to start the Macintosh project, and together with Bill Atkinson he put together a team to develop the hard and software. It wasn't until much later that the project caught Steve Jobs' eye, who realised the Macintosh project had more potential than his own brainchild, the Lisa. One of the people on the Macintosh team was Andy Hertzfeld, and O'Reilly News interviewed him a few days ago.
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Cringley did an interview with Andy Hertzfeld for the PBS' nerd tv in 2005. It was fun to listen to and I love the part where he comments about the phone conversation between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/player/?show=001&ext=mp4
He was the first person to be interviewed for that show.
Nerd TV:
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/shows/
Edited 2008-08-29 21:32 UTC
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My favourite Steve Jobs anecdote of all time:
Steve Jobs was not the most considerate individual at Apple, and he had lots of ways to demonstrate that. One of the most obvious was his habit of parking in the handicapped spot of the parking lot...
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...one day Apple executive Jean-Louis Gassee, who had recently transferred to Cupertino from Paris, had just parked his car and was walking toward the entrance of the main office at Apple when Steve buzzed by him in his silver Mercedes and pulled into the handicapped space near the front of the building.
As Steve walked brusquely past him, Jean-Louis was heard to declare, to no one in particular - "Oh, I never realized that those spaces were for the emotionally handicapped...".
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...one day Apple executive Jean-Louis Gassee, who had recently transferred to Cupertino from Paris, had just parked his car and was walking toward the entrance of the main office at Apple when Steve buzzed by him in his silver Mercedes and pulled into the handicapped space near the front of the building.
As Steve walked brusquely past him, Jean-Louis was heard to declare, to no one in particular - "Oh, I never realized that those spaces were for the emotionally handicapped...".
( http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Handic... )
JLG FTW!
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The book is good, but I prefer the actual website that inspired the book.
http://www.folklore.org/index.py
It has more stories and comments from former employees including Jeff Raskin. Jeff made the comments not long before he passed away.
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