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    Andy Hertzfeld

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    A lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997. ↗


    — Andy Hertzfeld

    #back #came #ceo #jobs #lot

    As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess. ↗


    — Andy Hertzfeld

    #eventually #gold #grabbed #guess #hands

    Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path. ↗


    — Andy Hertzfeld

    #helps #idealistic #many #obstacles #overcome

    I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project. ↗


    — Andy Hertzfeld

    #developed #folklore #i #project #public

    I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type. ↗


    — Andy Hertzfeld

    #apple ii #cost #did #first #i

    I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement. ↗


    — Andy Hertzfeld

    #around #bitten #bug #february #free

    I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken. ↗


    — Andy Hertzfeld

    #apple ii #approach #artistic #away #blew

    I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac. ↗


    — Andy Hertzfeld

    #apple #april #i #introduction #left

    I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here. ↗


    — Andy Hertzfeld

    #banks #bay #bay area #become #food

    I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II. ↗


    — Andy Hertzfeld

    #after #apple #apple ii #bought #i






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    Working for Bud Tribble alongside Bill Atkinson and Burrell Smith Hertzfeld became a primary software architect of the Macintosh Operating System which was considered revolutionary in its use of the graphical user interface (GUI) where Jef Raskin also made contributions. He volunteered for the Open Source Applications Foundation in 2002 and 2003 writing early prototypes of Chandler their information manager. Since leaving Apple he has co-founded three companies: Radius in 1986 General Magic in 1990 and Eazel in 1999.

    After buying an Apple II in January 1978 he went to work for Apple Computer from August 1979 until March 1984 where he was a designer for the Macintosh system software. Andy Hertzfeld (born April 6 1953) is an American computer scientist and inventor who was a member of the original Apple Macintosh development team during the 1980s.

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