Jef Raskin dies
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Jef Raskin, one of the key figures in the development of the Macintosh computer, died Saturday. He’s redesigning heaven as we speak.
Glenn Fleishman wrote
He was a renaissance man of the kind found only, these days, in technology fields: a musician, an artist, a computer science theorist, and a practical builder. He once resigned from a teaching job by serenading a university official from a hot-air balloon.
Via Michael Tsai.
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Posted to Computers • 2005.02.28 (Mon) • 01:27
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Posted by Richard 2005.02.28, 02:38
Interesting what happens when egos collide. Had Jobs not taken over the project it probably would have died at Apple along with Lisa and, well, history might have been different.
I think it took Jobs’ vision to take what was thought of as a “volks-computer” by Raskin and turn it into something a bit more.
Remember that the Macintosh was not Apple’s first GUI project, the Lisa was and neither Jobs nor Raskin worked on that one: Bill Atkinson and others did and when it got folded into the Mac project all of that good stuff Atkinson had come up with to draw screens came with it.
I’d say Hertzfeld’s book is the best place to get the big picture of Raskin’s contribution to the Macintosh project. But, his ideas were a lot wider ranging than computing, as browsing around the various sites like digibarn will attest.
In the end, Jobs needed a Raskin to plant the idea and for that we all should be very grateful to him.
Posted by Oliver 2005.03.02, 05:11
Hello,
read more about Jef Raskin at
http://myoldmac.net/cgi-data/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=52#52
In Memory of Jef Raskin… He Thought Different
Oliver
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