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

Thought

"The Macintosh having shipped, his next agenda was to turn the rest of Apple into the Mac group. He had perceived the rest of Apple wasn't as creative or motivated as the Mac team, and what you need to take over the company are managers, not innovators or technical people."

People

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

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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."

School

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

Employment

"But typically for a project like the Mac, the size we had was pretty good. And it has different stages. The team grows as you have to write manuals and do testing... though the Mac had no formal testing."

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

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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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