Jef Raskin

Many years later, Jef Raskin called his user-manual firm Bannister & Crun, which morphed into Apple Computer's Publication Department.) “Captain, the engines canna stand the strain!” What is it about catchphrases that engage us, tickle us, bond us? “Smile, you're on Candid Camera.” “People are doing it ...

Apple employee Jef Raskin is responsible for coining the machine after his favourite variety of apple, smartly tying the whole fruit theme together. Macintosh was just a code-name, and Steve Jobs is said to have tried to change the project's name to "Bicycle" while the McIntosh-loving staffer was out of office.

The son of Jef Raskin, who created the Macintosh project at Apple, Aza recently co-founded the Center for Humane Technology in San Francisco, a coalition of early stage technologists at companies such as Google, Facebook and Apple, who have first-hand experience with they way addictive technology ...

[Image: Leap Motion] Power Hands and Virtual Wearables are what Jef Raskin, who led the development of the Apple Macintosh, would call information appliances. For Raskin, an information appliance was a computing device with one single purpose–like a toaster that makes toast or a microwave that ...

February 19, 1981: Jef Raskin, creator of the Macintosh project, sends a memo to Apple CEO Mike Scott, listing his many complaints about working with Steve Jobs. He claims that Jobs, who joined the Mac team the previous month, is tardy, shows bad judgment, interrupts people, doesn't listen and is a bad manager.

In the late 1970s, Jef Raskin, a pioneering technologist who was one of Apple's earliest employees, sketched out a radical vision for the future of computing. Computers, he argued, should work like home appliances. The ideal computer would require almost no learning curve or upkeep. You wouldn't have ...

In the late 1970s, Jef Raskin, a pioneering technologist who was one of Apple's earliest employees, sketched out a radical vision for the future of computing. Computers, he argued, should work like home appliances. The ideal computer would require almost no learning curve or upkeep. You wouldn't have ...

Jef Raskin, who helped arranged both visits, explained that he wanted Jobs to visit PARC to understand work that was already going on at Apple. The Macintosh project had escaped the chopping block several times, and Raskin had tried to explain to Jobs the significance of the technologies it was ...

September 27, 1979: Years before the Macintosh will ship, Steve Jobs and Jef Raskin clash for the first time over the direction of the Macintosh R&D project. Raskin, the founder of the Macintosh project, wants a computer that's going to be affordable to everyone. Jobs wants a computer that's going to be the best, regardless ...

Everyone associates the Mac's creation with Steve Jobs (with very good reason), but there is another person without whom we wouldn't have Apple's iconic home computers: user interface guru Jef Raskin, who passed away on February 26, 2005 — exactly 11 years ago today. Raskin not only named the Macintosh — after ...

Steve Jobs Young Steve Jobs. https://www.flickr.com/photos/sigalakos/839742222 In 1978, Jef Raskin became the 31st employee of Apple computer. The next year, he started leading a "computer appliance" project — an easy-to-use device that would sell for a mere $1,000. It would be called the Macintosh ...

One of those people is Jef Raskin, often referred to—not entirely accurately—as the “father of the Macintosh.” Raskin named the Macintosh after his favorite apple, and was its project manager but left the company a couple years before it hit the market in 1984. Jobs initially worked on the Lisa, a more ...

Jef Raskin was known as the "father of the Macintosh" for his early work designing what became Apple Computer Inc.'s signature product and the start of the personal computer revolution. But even in his final days, Raskin held fast to his belief that computers are still not as easy to operate as they could be ...

Jef Raskin, the lead designer of the first Macintosh computer and a pioneer in the development of user interfaces, died Saturday at age 61. He had been diagnosed recently with pancreatic cancer, his family said in a statement. Raskin joined Apple in 1978 as employee number 31 and headed the ...

There is little doubt that both the Macintosh and the Lisa, the “different twins” produced by Apple in the fist half of the 1980s, have revolutionized the very concept of personal computer. Yet, while the Macintosh project was an enormous success and (in different versions) sold millions of pieces from 1984 to ...