Memeroll: Jef Raskin, father of the Mac, passes
Dave Burstein’s remembrance sums up the dynamic life of Jef
Raskin: Jef Raskin died of cancer on Saturday February 26th after being sick for several months. A wonderful spirit and
renaissance man, who inspired me and many others. He created the Macintosh project at Apple in 1979, naming it after
his favorite fruit. He left Apple to form Information Appliances, where he designed the Canon Cat with an innovative
interface. [more]
Dave and Jennie Bource are making a documentary film about Jef, some clips
are available at the site.
Recent updates to Raskin’s blog include Apple
documents from 1979, RC airplane photos,
and his restored organ from
1858.
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Wikipedia: Jef Raskin
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
geoff said 4:16PM on 6-16-2005
While Mr. Raskin had some conflicting opinions in his latter years with what direction Apple is taking, I still think it's in poor taste of Apple to not have at least some kind of mention of his passing on their website.
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