Inventing The Future

Jef Raskin's tiny Macintosh team was struggling to fulfill the goal of a '$1,000-person-in-the-street' computer.

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As the Homebrew Computer Club met and MITS frantically shipped Altairs, researchers at Xerox PARC were seemingly a decade or more ahead.

Proud to have an extract from my book in The Verge as part of their Apple@50 annniversary.

ATG boss Larry Tesler stood before an employee-only gathering inside De Anza 3: “Part of Apple's identity is innovative leadership in technology for people.

While Steve Jobs told the press, at the Apple II Forever event, that the Macintosh had reached 50,000 unit sales in 100 days, there were growing doubts about how many people wanted a computer with a black-and-white screen.

Apple ATG engineer Tom Gilley looks back: Bob (Alkire) is a genius, another one of these super-smart people who had already worked at Atari, HP Labs, or Xerox.

Future Apple project engineer, John Couch was among the first graduates of Berkeley University's computer science program, and was immediately recruited by Hewlett-Packard to work on the HP-3000's software.

Jon Krakower recalls progress on Project Laguna aka the Macintosh Portable: There are so many stories I could tell you.

Jim Gable worked on Jonathan Eder's LaserWriter product management team as it planned the next-generation version of Apple's printer line.

From the begining, no two Apple job interviews were the same.

Portables Product Manager Bruce Gee recalls: What's interesting, for context, is if you look back at Silicon Valley in that decade between 1980 and 1990.

Future Apple programmer Konstantin Othmer was entering academia at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

Senior Scientist Mike Liebhold recalls his role at Apple: I guess I was an unofficial ‘agent provocateur at Apple'.

When you hear current Apple developers and pundits, of a certain age, talk about "the old days" and being connected to Apple, this is an example of what they mean.