Jef Raskin Early Apple
Steve Jobs and Jef Raskin, 1978
- Name
- Jef Raskin
- Life
- 1943 - 2005
- Relationship to Steve
- Colleague
- Short Bio
Jef Raskin was an academically-trained computer scientist who joined Apple in 1978. The work at Xerox PARC inspired him to start the Macintosh project (named after his favorite apple), that of an "information appliance" that would be "as easy to use as a toaster" and very inexpensive. Steve Jobs heard about it and took over the project after he was kicked out of the Lisa team. Raskin left Apple soon afterwards, out of disagreements with Steve.
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