I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II.

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I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac.

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Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path.

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The Apple II was not designed like an ordinary product. It used crazy tricks everywhere.

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I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project.

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As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess.

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I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.

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Part of Steve's job was to drum into us how important what we were doing actually would be to the world.

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A lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997.

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I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.

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