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The Original Macintosh
Anecdotes about the development of Apple's original Macintosh, and the people who made it (66 stories)
“The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.” -- Louis Kahn
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The original Mac team's original office
Date: October 1980
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Apple Spirit,Origins,Management,Buildings
Comments:  9
Rating:  (3.54)
The office where the Mac became real
Date: January 1981
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Origins, Lisa, Buildings
Comments:  6
Rating:  (3.5)
Bud defines Steve's unique talent
Date: February 1981
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Management, Personality, Reality Distortion
Comments:  16
Rating:  (4.53)
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)
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)
We hooked up a mouse to the Apple II
Date: June 1981
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Software Design,Apple Spirit,Prototypes,Technical,Apple II,Compensation
Comments:  7
Rating:  (4.36)
The first time we demoed the Macintosh to Microsoft
Date: July 1981
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: 3rd party developers,Microsoft,Prototypes
Comments:  8
Rating:  (4.26)
Steve is concerned with the esthetics of the PC board
Date: July 1981
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Hardware Design,Personality
Comments:  9
Rating:  (4.41)
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