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The Original Macintosh
Anecdotes about the development of Apple's original Macintosh, and the people who made it (123 stories)
“Expose yourself to the best things humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you are doing.” -- Steve Jobs
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My first job on the Macintosh project
Date: February 1981
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Hardware Design,Prototypes,Software Design,Early Programs,Technical
Comments:  9
Rating:  (3.83)
A shakeup in Apple II engineering frees me up to work on the Macintosh
Date: February 1981
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Origins,Apple II,Management,Recruiting
Comments:  9
Rating:  (4.61)
The design of the Macintosh case
Date: March 1981
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Industrial Design,Hardware,Prototypes
Comments:  9
Rating:  (4.41)
The SCC gets designed into the Mac
Date: March 1981
Author: steve blank
Topics: Hardware,Hardware Design
Comments:  5
Rating:  (4.28)
The Lisa had a different screen resolution than the Macintosh
Date: April 1981
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Hardware Design,Management,Lisa
Comments:  9
Rating:  (3.5)
Rod wants to change the name of the project
Date: April 1981
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Management, Apple Spirit
Comments:  11
Rating:  (3.47)
Various demos showed off what the hardware could do
Date: April 1981
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Hardware Design, Prototypes, Software Design. Early Programs
Comments:  8
Rating:  (4.26)
We encounter Adam Osborne at the West Coast Computer Faire
Date: April 1981
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Personality, Personality Clashes
Comments:  6
Rating:  (4.7)
Steve inspires Bill by pointing out something about the real world
Date: May 1981
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Software Design,Inspiration,QuickDraw
Comments:  10
Rating:  (4.63)
We stay late to bring up the first printed circuit board
Date: May 1981
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Hardware,Prototypes,Management
Comments:  7
Rating:  (4.06)
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