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The Original Macintosh
Anecdotes about the development of Apple's original Macintosh, and the people who made it (13 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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Hardware Design:  (13)
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Burrell proves his mettle with the 80k language card.
Date: November 1979
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Hardware Design, Technical, Apple II
Comments:  7
Rating:  (4.03)
The very first image on the very first Macintosh
Date: February 1980
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Origins,Hardware Design,Prototypes
Comments:  15
Rating:  (4.32)
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)
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)
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)
The evolution of the Macintosh digital board
Date: June 1981
Author: Daniel Kottke
Topics: Hardware Design, Prototypes, Technical
Comments:  5
Rating:  (4.04)
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)
Burrell tried to sneak in some hardware expandability
Date: July 1981
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Hardware Design,Management
Comments:  13
Rating:  (4.27)
Steve threatens to remove Mac's sound capability
Date: September 1982
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Topics: Hardware Design, Software Design, Management, Technical
Comments:  6
Rating:  (4.37)
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