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    Andy Hertzfeld

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    I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school. ↗


    — Andy Hertzfeld

    #apple ii #because #berkeley #bought #grad

    In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just because I had the power to do so, which I'd never had on a computer before. ↗


    — Andy Hertzfeld

    #apple ii #because #before #computer #did

    Part of Steve's job was to drum into us how important what we were doing actually would be to the world. ↗


    — Andy Hertzfeld

    #doing #drum #how #important #into

    People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well. ↗


    — Andy Hertzfeld

    #device #drivers #empathy #humans #interface

    The Apple II was not designed like an ordinary product. It used crazy tricks everywhere. ↗


    — Andy Hertzfeld

    #apple ii #crazy #designed #everywhere #ii






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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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