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Andy Hertzfeld on the Macintosh, Steve Jobs and General Magic

Danielle Newnham Podcast

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What Was the Story About You Joining the Mackintosh Team?

Mike scott, the president of apple at the time, decided to fire more than a quarter of the applet group because they had made some bad fires. When i found out they had fired a friend of mine, who i thought was one of the best pergamers at apple, that made me pretty disillusioned. But i ended up telling a friend i was thinking about leaving in protest. And mike scott called me up and said, we don't want you to quit. What can we do to make you stay? And i had said i may be working on the mackintosh project. He went and he took my apple too, and picked it up and started

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