Apple was our benefactor at starting General Magic, but about a year later decided they would rather BE General Magic and tried to make us blink out of existence... which we eventually did, but it took a few years.
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I started focusing all my time on being an Apple II hobbyist, dropped out of grad school to go to work for Apple in August of '79.Andy Hertzfeld
I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II.
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Apple instigated the personal computer revolution with the Apple II, which was the first mass market personal computer as we know them today.
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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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I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.
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I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here.
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