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The Original Macintosh
Anecdotes about the development of Apple's original Macintosh, and the people who made it (123 stories)
“There are two ways of constructing a software design: one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.” -- Tony Hoare
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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 put a hidden icon in the ROM
Date: August 1983
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Software Design
Comments:  30
Rating:  (4.63)
Bill decides to leave out a very impressive feature
Date: June 1983
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: MacPaint,Software Design,QuickDraw,Technical,Lisa
Comments:  7
Rating:  (4.63)
Burrell imitates Jef
Date: January 1981
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Personality
Comments:  8
Rating:  (4.62)
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:  (4.62)
My belated performance review is delivered verbally
Date: February 1983
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Management,Personality Clashes
Comments:  3
Rating:  (4.61)
An essay I wrote about Apple's values that was published in MacWeek
Date: undated
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Apple Spirit, Inspiration
Comments:  9
Rating:  (4.61)
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)
Burrell and I get our pictures in Newsweek
Date: January 1984
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: The Press,The Launch,Marketing
Comments:  7
Rating:  (4.6)
Steve forbid us to work with Sony
Date: August 1983
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Hardware Design,Management,Lisa
Comments:  7
Rating:  (4.59)
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