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The Original Macintosh
Anecdotes about the development of Apple's original Macintosh, and the people who made it (10 stories)
“He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.” -- Pablo Picasso
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Susan Kare:  (10)
Susan started working on the Mac Team in January 1983. She designed most of the icons and fonts for the Macintosh, as well as lots of the original marketing material, and helped to craft the overall look and personality of the system. After leaving Apple in 1985, she was one of the first ten NeXT employees. Since 1988, she has been a successful independent graphic designer.
A brief history of desk accessories
Date: October 1981
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Software Design,User Interface,Personality
Comments:  14
Rating:  (4.45)
Steve has a unique idea for the software
Date: February 1982
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Software Design,Personality
Comments:  8
Rating:  (4.28)
Having your own icon became a status symbol
Date: February 1983
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: MacPaint,Personality
Comments:  5
Rating:  (4.35)
How we got the unusual symbol used for the menu command key
Date: August 1983
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Software Design
Comments:  19
Rating:  (4.66)
We needed to come up with a naming scheme for our fonts
Date: August 1983
Author: Susan Kare
Topics: Software Design,Personality
Comments:  7
Rating:  (4.4)
We put a hidden icon in the ROM
Date: August 1983
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Software Design
Comments:  30
Rating:  (4.63)
We uncover a particularly bad bug shortly after ROM freeze
Date: September 1983
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Technical,Software Design,Bugs
Comments:  6
Rating:  (4.37)
A gallery of Susan Kare's MacPaint art from 1983
Date: October 1983
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Social Life, Testing, MacPaint, Marketing
Comments:  7
Rating:  (4.6)
We need a demo for the intro
Date: January 1984
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Marketing,The Launch,Software Design
Comments:  15
Rating:  (4.38)
Here are a few seminal Macintosh screenshots, ala the Lisa polaroids
Date: undated
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Comments:  2
Rating:  (4.54)

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