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<h3>The Story Behind the Macintosh Computer</h3> <p>INSANELY GREAT: THE LIFE &amp; TIMES OF MACINTOSH covers the research and development that led to the first 128K Mac and the struggles involved to make the continued evolution of the Macintosh possible. Predecessors of the Mac and ideas that made their way into the first computer with a smiling start-up screen are discussed in loving detail (the author is a big fan of the Macintosh) -- the mouse, icons and other discoveries that revolutionized the way people work with computers.</p> <p>Along the way, the reader gets a sense of the people who contributed to the various Macintosh teams: Steve Jobs, with his "reality-distortion field" that prodded the team to create the near-impossible; John Sculley, the former Pepsi CEO brought in to facilitate the growing up of the Apple company; and many other key members of the Macintosh teams including Bill Atkinson, the genius behind MacPaint and later, HyperCard.</p> <p>As it turns out, Bill Atkinson did not originally plan for a menu bar on top of the screen. It sort of migrated upward, like cream rising to the top. Atkinson wanted the commands to be geographically predictable, the same place

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Author

Steven Levy,Viking

Publisher

Viking Adult

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780670852444

Category

history

Subjects

Economics, Fiction, Computer Science

Rating

3.95 / 5 (16 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14