Looking forward to celebrating the Mac's 40th birthday at the Computer History Museum tomorrow evening, see computerhistory.org/events/insanel…. I asked DALL-E to bake a cake...
Somehow I managed to hang on to this artifact from the Apple /// introduction in May 1980 at the NCC in Anaheim, which Apple celebrated by inviting attendees to Disneyland.
In 1986, Susan Lammers of Microsoft Press published “Programmers at Work”, a collection of entertaining interviews with nineteen prominent programmers, including yours truly.
Excited to announce Tools & Craft, an interview series I've been working on with @NotionHQ for the past few months!
In this first episode, I spoke with Andy Hertzfeld, who architected the operating system of the original Macintosh
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When I started working on General Magic, it was a project at Apple codenamed "Paradigm". Marc asked me to rejoin Apple as an employee, but I refused because I didn't trust Apple's management at the time. Instead, Marc suggested I become a consultant. Here's a scan of my contract:
Here's a demo of General Magic’s Magic Cap software done for Terry Winograd’s CS 547 class at Stanford on January 21, 1994 . youtu.be/tChrGGiXBeI via @YouTube
Someone disassembled and recreated an Apple /// demo that I wrote in early 1980, the colorful "Running Horses" demo that was used as part of the launch. It used images originally created by Eadweard Muybridge in 1878.
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Magic Cap was General Magic's platform for personal intelligent communicators. This is the first time it was demoed publicly at the keynote for the SF Macworld on Jan 6, 1994, following a panel discussion celebrating the Mac's tenth birthday.
Here's an interview about the early Apple II days that I did a couple of years ago, that was recently posted to YouTube.
Silicon Valley Pioneers: Andy Hertzfeld Part-1 youtu.be/-3lod6z8xf8
