Re: [NTLK] Father of the Mac dies

From: Alex Santos 100MB Neostrada Mail (izabella.misiewiczsantos_at_neostrada.pl)
Date: Fri Mar 04 2005 - 01:14:46 PST


My memory is vague but I believe the mac project as it may or may not
have been called then at Apple Advanced Systems Division or something
like that was already underway in '79 or '80. Raskin was a visiting
professor at PARC, in fact he got another very important figure to go
to Apple to help him on the project, a lot of the ideas he had,
INCLUDING A MOUSE, were already concepts he had much around the same
time Douglas Engelbart was working on his three button mouse.

In fact, while at PARC, Raskin noticed that people often became very
confused about the three button mouse and he decided with only one, no
one would get mixed up. He regrets not building a two button mouse
later on but with fixed labels on the mouse.

Engelbart is in fact the true father of modern computer as we know it
today, although other innovations came later obviously but Jef Raskin
was central to the mac project, he was visionary.

If you want to learn more, try these links, they are extremely
interesting

Alan Kay: Doing with Images Makes Symbols Part 1
http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?
collection=opensource_movies&collectionid=AV_Geek_Skip_20021212061248

Alan Kay: Doing with Images Makes Symbols Part 2
http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?
collection=opensource_movies&collectionid=AV_Geek_Skip_20021212071234

and finally, an interview with Raskin
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=jef%20Raskin

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