That one It's a beautiful world At Cupertino I used to have a reputation as a vegetarian but they actually cook anything if you don't like the menu. We're talking about the 1980s & # 39; s, and the real winner at the time was the Oriental or Latin cuisine. Looks like it was also a favorite of many local kids and on the weekends, it was packed with families. Location of Stevens Creek Boulevard It was very traditional and the restaurant knew how to quickly exchange with its new and favorite customers. Among them, those of the new company that recently moved there: Apple Computer. It was his first business headquarters on the site.
The first was garage at Steve Jobs's parents' home.
After work
Andy Hertzfeld He rushed his supper with the last bowl of fury after another fateful day at those new Apple offices (called the Good Earth Building precisely because of its proximity to the famous restaurant). In that first Macintosh business was being built, even though it was not performing as we recall today. It was just that strange monochrome monitor was connected to certain plates on the table. Without him, Apple II completely shocked and is connected to that prototype of in a way.
The first example of the Macintosh has been the mix between Apple II and other amazing engineering tactics
Burrel smith She spent almost all of her Christmas holidays in 1979 working on a new computer mother. By January 1980, I already had a show basic about what I wanted to build, even though it wasn't a computer at all – it eventually became one. He actually used the Apple II elements to create the first impression of Jeff Raskin: Motorola 6809E processor, 64K of memory and most importantly of the new component, graphics system with 256×256 resolution.
The paintings were to be the capital of the new country that Apple wanted to show the world and Burrell was you are completely mad. Instead of creating a type of trick, is hacked that Apple II to understand what it was building in a way that would surprise Wozniak himself. "The way he found it is totally crazy." Hertzfield once said so.
All of that was new, and it is fucking strange, that even Baptist himself did not know exactly where he had come. I suspected that this example might produce complex graphics on each screen, but I still needed to write the necessary software. On any paper, he wrote memory addresses are reserved storing photos that will require a program. Like who draws commands to get wealth.
Map of wealth
Some Apple employees return to the office after dinner to work on their own projects: many end up at Macintosh
Hertzfeld was pleasantly surprised by everything, one night after a Good Earth dinner he returned to Apple's offices to see what his teammates were doing. Some of them were dedicated to them your projects And he loved meeting them. Sometimes we think that innovation comes from well-planned, designed and mapped road maps. This is not always the case: intelligence begins often with this maps of heritage it is drawn on a paper that is not important in the hands of the right person.
Using him, that night, Andy edited the necessary software test that prototype and upload the original image to the Macintosh. However, back then it was not uncommon to have a picture scanned to prove it: thanks to a previous project, Bob Bishop (another software wizard) has many pictures of Donald Duck scanned – Herzfield took one Uncle Gilito sitting on a mountain of dollars (Preface?) that for some reason, it was funny.
Hertzfeld did not realize that the image did not have a disk controller: that had to be saved even if everything was lost
He imagined Burrell's face arriving the next day in the office and seeing that proto-Macintosh He had a picture uploaded to the screen – something close to a computer surprise he could think of. Anyway, that's a little Frankenstein I didn't have one yet disk drive, so I couldn't load it. It's a mistake! I couldn't turn off the computer for all the work I had done in the middle of the night because I didn't know how to restart that hot burrell machine and that everything will load initially without removing anything.
But our hero comes from that a night of fairy tales: Cliff houston, who was looking at Hertzfeld's problems from his desk in the office. "I told her what had happened to me and I became angry. She smiled at her face."Huston told him he was able to introduce a control card of records without turning off that machine – something that at the time, was far from plug-and-play, was almost science fiction or witchcraft.
All or nothing
"I have to do it with great care: if I don't insert the card properly, it can rotate the board."Andy's face showed more than concern: he played it all or nothing. If Cliff didn't do it in the first place, he would not only lose his job with graphics, it could also damage Burrell's image. But that was Apple, and I remind you that those people were there blessed are you mad, they did.
And it worked. First.
In fact, it worked so well that there was more space under the image to add text "Hi Burrell!"one of the first sources of compatible system. it's a lighter color in those offices that night we remember today, celebrating the Macintosh's 36th anniversary.
Some genius is born not of complex company processes, but of a genuine passion for innovation and the madness to achieve it
When they returned the next day, a very happy Burrell always taught everyone that image. It was like this the earth on the moon at the beginning. I couldn't believe my eyes. Tom Whitney, Apple's senior vice president of engineering in charge of the project, understood that it could change everything. This is one of the times when the Macintosh project begins to happen. One day, after dinner at Good Earth.
"Steve Jobs should see this."
We've made the whole world go on January 24, 1984.
And we've come across why 1984 wasn't like "1984".
