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I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac.
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Apple was our benefactor at starting General Magic, but about a year later decided they would rather BE General Magic and tried to make us blink out of existence... which we eventually did, but it took a few years.
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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.
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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.
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The Apple II was not designed like an ordinary product. It used crazy tricks everywhere.
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We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do a project writing down my memoirs essentially, reminiscing about the development of the Macintosh.
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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.
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Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path.
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Part of Steve's job was to drum into us how important what we were doing actually would be to the world.
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I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.
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Scotty heard that I was thinking about quitting Apple because of his actions, so he called me into his office and asked what it would take for me to stay? I said, maybe if I could work on the Mac project, which Steve had just taken over from Jef Raskin.
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I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II.
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I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.
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