Title:
Oral History of Bill Atkinson and Andy Hertzfeld

Date:
2004-06-08

Pages:
68 p.

Interviewer:
Booch, Grady; interviewer
Atkinson, Bill; interviewee
Hertzfeld, Andy; interviewee
Crocker, Suzanne; editor

Abstract:
On June 8, 2004, Grady Booch interviewed Bill Atkinson and Andy Hertzfeld, early Apple developers, on videotape for the Computer History Museum’s Oral History Program. In this transcript of that session, they discuss the development of the Macintosh and its early software, particularly, MacPaint. The two programmers relate their early computing experiences, how they came to Apple, and share stories of what went on during the early ‘80s at Apple. They discuss the evolution of technology from the Lisa to the development of the Macintosh, including descriptions of the design decisions along the way. Atkinson and Hertzfeld talk about the details of creating early software for the Macintosh, and show onscreen versions of the software, including a demo of MacPaint 1.0.

Keywords:
Atkinson, Bill
Hertzfeld, Andy
Apple II
Command
Hoffman, Joanna
HyperCard
Jobs, Steve
Kare, Susan
Lisa
LisaDraw
LisaGraf
Macintosh
MacPaint
MacWrite
Markkula, Mike
Mouse
Page, Rich
PhotoShop
QuickDraw
Raskin, Jef
Simonyi, Charles
SketchPad
SmallTalk
Smith, Burrell
Tesler, Larry
Tribble, Bud
User Interface
Woz
Xerox PARC

Rights:
Computer History Museum

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