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The Original Macintosh
Anecdotes about the development of Apple's original Macintosh, and the people who made it (10 stories)
“When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.” -- R. Buckminster Fuller
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Bob Belleville:  (10)
The artists sign their work
Date: February 1982
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Management,Apple Spirit,Industrial Design
Comments:  13
Rating:  (4.19)
Bob has written many lines of code
Date: April 1982
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Software Design,Management
Comments:  3
Rating:  (4.16)
The software team has a personality clash
Date: May 1982
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Management, Personality Clashes
Comments:  2
Rating:  (4.21)
Bob gives Bruce thirty days to finish the Resource Manager
Date: August 1982
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Software Design,Management
Comments:  3
Rating:  (4.11)
Why the Mac design team got credit for their work
Date: January 1983
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Marketing,The Launch,The Press,Retreats
Comments:  4
Rating:  (4.37)
My belated performance review is delivered verbally
Date: February 1983
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Management,Personality Clashes
Comments:  3
Rating:  (4.61)
Steve forbid us to work with Sony
Date: August 1983
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Hardware Design,Management,Lisa
Comments:  7
Rating:  (4.59)
We present a Mac to Mick Jagger
Date: January 1984
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Marketing,Celebrities,The Launch
Comments:  5
Rating:  (4.0)
My leave of absence was drawing to a close
Date: September 1984
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Quitting,Personality Clashes,Reality Distortion
Comments:  4
Rating:  (4.07)
The Mac division undergoes an inconceivable reorganization
Date: May 1985
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Management,Personality,Personality Clashes,Quitting
Comments:  7
Rating:  (4.56)

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