Folklore (www.folklore.org) is an interesting project. It aims at capturing history through different perspectives of the people involved in it. According to the site they are currently working on Macintosh. It has been quite a while since I saw a post there.
You will find a lot of anecdotes given by Burrel Smith and Andy Hertzfeld. The website gives the feel of heydays of Apple and various people that made it apart from Stebve Jobs.
Initially you might not relate to couple of the articles as the names mentioned in them would not be known to you, my suggestion is they aren't many you will get idea when you would have read a bunch of them. Following are few articles which I can recommend reading from top of my mind, I am sure any one remotely interested in so called technical details as well as history will find the complete archive intriguing and engaging.
Bugs:
http://www.folklore.org/ProjectView.py?project=Macintosh&topic=Bugs&detail=medium
Reality Distortion Field (Reality seems to get distorted when you are near Steve Jobs)
http://www.folklore.org/ProjectView.py?project=Macintosh&topic=Reality%20Distortion&detail=medium
An awkward game, interesting author:
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Donkey.txt&sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Date&detail=medium&search=bill%20gates
A Rich Neighbor: You will find this in the movie Pirates of the Silicon Valley
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Donkey.txt&sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Date&detail=medium&search=bill%20gates
Round Rectangles
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Donkey.txt&sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Date&detail=medium&search=bill%20gates
I invented Burrell
Office humor, Jef Raskin I think was the guy behind Macintosh and Steve Jobs didn't give the deserved credit to him [so i suppose]
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=I_Invented_Burrell.txt&sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Date&detail=medium&search=invented
You will find a lot of anecdotes given by Burrel Smith and Andy Hertzfeld. The website gives the feel of heydays of Apple and various people that made it apart from Stebve Jobs.
Initially you might not relate to couple of the articles as the names mentioned in them would not be known to you, my suggestion is they aren't many you will get idea when you would have read a bunch of them. Following are few articles which I can recommend reading from top of my mind, I am sure any one remotely interested in so called technical details as well as history will find the complete archive intriguing and engaging.
Bugs:
http://www.folklore.org/ProjectView.py?project=Macintosh&topic=Bugs&detail=medium
Reality Distortion Field (Reality seems to get distorted when you are near Steve Jobs)
http://www.folklore.org/ProjectView.py?project=Macintosh&topic=Reality%20Distortion&detail=medium
An awkward game, interesting author:
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Donkey.txt&sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Date&detail=medium&search=bill%20gates
A Rich Neighbor: You will find this in the movie Pirates of the Silicon Valley
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Donkey.txt&sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Date&detail=medium&search=bill%20gates
Round Rectangles
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Donkey.txt&sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Date&detail=medium&search=bill%20gates
I invented Burrell
Office humor, Jef Raskin I think was the guy behind Macintosh and Steve Jobs didn't give the deserved credit to him [so i suppose]
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=I_Invented_Burrell.txt&sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Date&detail=medium&search=invented
4 comments:
Good stories! but some of them are very biased imo
-JD
they would be JD since it is not contributed by a silent dispassionate observer but people who where involved in the making.
Can you point out some of them which you think are _very_ biased?
like this one:http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Donkey.txt&topic=Microsoft&sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Date&detail=medium
Definitely I lack enough information to comment on this, but don't you so too?
I don't think it is biased, opinionated yes.
You have to agree they are nice reads. Some of the articles are really good. http://www.folklore.org/ProjectView.py?project=Macintosh&topic=Bugs&detail=medium
You got offended by my inquiry. I didn't say that you don't have enough information. It is just that I have read through these articles around an year back so I could not immediately remember which one's where hugely biased.
The site is not been updated for quite a while and they have not taken up another project for now, I don't know what is happening.
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