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- 1 - © Minder Chen, 2011-2012 Macintosh Presented by Lindsay Romo
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- 2 - © Minder Chen, 2011-2012 *Gordon French*Gordon French and Fred Moore started the Homebrew Computer ClubFred Moore
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- 3 - © Minder Chen, 2011-2012 Simplicity Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication: Introducing Apple II, the personal computer
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- 4 - © Minder Chen, 2011-2012 Apple I & II Lisa Macintosh Most people considered the Apple II to be Wozniak’s creation. –Jobs integrated Wozniak’s boards into a friendly package, from the power supply to the sleek case –He also created the company that sprang up around Wozniak’s machines Jobs was determined to have a project that he could call his own. As chairman, Jobs approved Jeff Raskin’s 1979 plan to start designing the Macintosh
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- 5 - © Minder Chen, 2011-2012 A Mighty Mouse the Xerox mouse had three buttons, was complicated, cost $300/$400 apiece, and didn’t roll around smoothly Jobs worked with Dean Hovey (one of the inventors), to create a simple single button model that cost $15, –It should also roll on multiple surfaces includes Formica (laminate)and blue jeans The idea was to “take a piece of technology developed by some of Silicon Valley’s greatest minds, dramatically improve its reliability and cut its price by more than 90 percent.” http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2002/marapr/features/mouse.html SRI had licensed the mouse patent to Apple for something like $40,000." Apple
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- 6 - © Minder Chen, 2011-2012 Design via Prototyping Construction play Thinking with Your Hands Low-resolution prototype Hovey estimated their consulting fee at thirty-five dollars an hour; the whole project cost perhaps a hundred thousand dollars. http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2002/marapr/features/mouse.html
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- 7 - © Minder Chen, 2011-2012 http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2011/3/105304-fumbling-the-future/fulltext - Moshe Y. Vardi, CACM Editor in Chief 《說卦》 數往者順,知來者逆, 是故《易》逆數也。
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- 8 - © Minder Chen, 2011-2012 Macintosh The Macintosh was the world’s first computer with beautiful fonts and typography.
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- 9 - © Minder Chen, 2011-2012 1984 Mac Launching Ad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhsWzJo2sN4
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- 10 - © Minder Chen, 2011-2012 Macintosh 1984, by Norman Seeff
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- 11 - © Minder Chen, 2011-2012 “Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, and poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.” What Made the Macintosh Great
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