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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 got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement."
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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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"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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"Working long hours being single helps because your time is yours. Once you have a family your time isn't all yours anymore. Most of the Mac team, we were in our mid-20's, most of us were single, and we were able to essentially devote our lives to it."
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"As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess."
Gold
"I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type."
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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."
Power
"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 left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac."
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