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Subjects:Counterculture | Early Mac | Mouse| Technical Writing | Marketing| User Groups
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Making For Web And Macbook Pro
'Making the Macintosh' is an online project documentingthe history of the Macintosh computer. The Macintosh stands ata cusp in the history of computing and Silicon Valley: it broughttogether (and sometimes transformed) a number of technical andconceptual threads in computing that developed in the 1960s and1970s, but it also was responsible for sparking new movementsin computing. This project collects and publishes primary materialon the Macintosh's development and early reception. It draws onthe extensive holdings of the Stanford University Library's Departmentof Special Collections, the personal papers of engineers and technicalwriters involved in the Macintosh project, and interviews conductedfor the project.
Read an interview with SusanKare, icon designer on the Macintosh.
What's Here?
The exhibit features primary documents, such as memos tracingthe evolution of the Macintosh mouse; images, such as technicaldrawings, stills from commercials, notes from user tests; andinterviews with members of the Macintosh development team, technicalwriters, and founders of user groups.
What's New
Readers who heard about the site from othersources can browse a list of reviews and articlesabout the site.
Since launching in July, the site has received hundreds ofe-mails from readers, with everything from suggestions for newfeatures and subjects, to bug reports, to typos. These have allbeen extremely useful, especially in those cases when I've neededfeedback on something new. So keepthose cards and letters coming!
The exhibit has won several awards and been the subject ofvarious articles, most recently a featured review in the HarvardBusiness School's WorkingKnowledge Web site, and a 'Bookmarks'column in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
The Areas
Primary Subjects
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'Making the Macintosh' is organized around severalprimary subjects. In each, readers will first find an introductoryessay that explains the significance of the subject; providessome background necessary to make sense of the archival collection;and suggestions regarding how to get started in the documents.There is also a complete list of documents, interviews, and imagesfor each section. The site takes this approach because the characterof the collection makes it possible for the documents-- and thepeople who created them-- to speak for themselves, without theusual intermediary scholarly apparatus of interpretation and explication.
Counterculture and Computing. Somehave argued that the invention of the personal computer in the1970s was driven by both technological innovations (most notablythe introduction of the microprocessor) and a desire to make computingpower accessible to the general public.
Theodore Roszak's FromSatori to Silicon Valley, one of the more eloquentstatements of a relationship between the counterculture and computing,is reproduced in its entirety in this exhibit, thanks to the generosityof Professor Roszak.
The Early Macintosh. This sectionfocuses on the Macintosh project when it was under the directionof Jef Raskin.
Interviewwith Jef Raskin, and essays from TheBook of Macintosh.
The Apple Mouse. The Apple mouse hasbecome a standard in the computer input industry. However, littleattention has been given to how the mouse was moved 'fromthe laboratory to the living room,' as one of its designersput it. This section provides documents and drawings tracing thatevolution.
Interviews with DeanHovey and DavidKelley, members of the mouse design team; pictures of earlymouse prototypes.
Technical Documentation. The roletechnical writers played on the Macintosh project has gone largelyunexamined. This section discusses the work of technical writing,its uses at Apple before the Macintosh project, and the role writersplayed in shaping the operating system software.
Interview with ChrisEspinosa, head of Macintosh documentation; and SandyMiranda, technical writer.
Marketing the Macintosh. The 1984commercial is the best-known part of the Macintosh launch, butother techniques developed or refined for the launch have beeneven more influential in high-tech marketing and public relations.
Two views of the January 1984 Macintosh launchfrom Andy Cunninghan(the PR specialist who directed the Macintosh launch), and Evelyn Richards(the San Jose Mercury News reporter who covered it).
User Groups. User groups were a significantearly market for Macintosh; they alsoserved as software distributors, sources of technical information,and incubators for hardware and software companies.
'TheUltimate BMUG Thursday Night... and You Are There,' anaccount of Berkeley Macintosh User Group meetings; Ray Badowski's'The Plan of St. Gall;'interview with ReeseJones, BMUG pioneer (and founder of Farallon and Netopia).
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Those interested in historiographic questions and read moreon why these subjects were chosen.
Under Construction
This project is ongoing. There is already a backlog of interviewsand primary materials that could not be included in this release,and will be added shortly in an update; we are also working toexplore and document other aspects of the Macintosh's history.