[DM-MUG] Macintosh creator Jef Raskin dies at 61

[Darcy Baston]

Thanks for the link bill.

On that page, is the text:

"Jef was the creator and leader of the Mac project at Apple until their  dilution of his original ideas of a 'low-cost ($500 US) computer for everyone'"

It gives me chills to notice that Jef passed away not long after the introduction of the Mac mini, a $500 computer for everyone, even Windows users.

The last 7 years have been a big cycle of Apple bringing their past into the present, repackaged. Has anyone noticed these:

iMac = all in one Mac from 1984
OS X = NeXT OS
Cube = NeXT cube
Pages = Desktop Publishing throwback (Apple was/is king in this)
.Mac = eWorld (their BBS thing...is that what it was called?)
Mac mini = sort of Jef's idea, or at least Apple II'ish

Darcy
 
On Thursday, March 17, 2005, at 11:58PM, Bill Davis <billd@ecity.net> wrote:

>Here's a tribute to Jef Raskin by one of my favorite authors, Spider 
>Robinson, who knew him.
>
>  http://www.spiderrobinson.com/raskin.htm
>
>Spider's a Mac user and fan, by the way.  Macs show up in his Spider's 
>books, along with some great puns about Apple.    He even had a Mac II 
>with an AI as a character in one of his Callahan's Crosstime Saloon 
>books.
>
>  - Bill