By your reasoning, the Apple I was intended to be a mouse driven system because engelbart had a mouse prototype in 1968.
I don't think that's the case.
Also, if you talked to Jef, like I did when he was showing off the SwyftCard, he was not ashamed to tell you that the Mac was originally going to be a keyboard based system (like the SwyftCard or the Canon Cat.)
Steve Levy recorded these comments in "Insanely Great", the Wikipedia paraphrase is: "Secretly bypassing Job's ego and authority by continually securing permission and funding directly at the executive level, Raskin created and solely supervised the Macintosh project for approximately it's first year... it was Raskin who provided the powerful vision of a computer whose legacy would be low cost, high utility and a groundbreaking friendliness... it was text only, as Raskin disliked the computer mouse or anything that else that could take his hands from the keyboard."
While it's tempting to believe the Mac sprung forth from Jobs forehead fully formed in 1984, it's just simply not true. Many people were involved in it's development and it's ultimate form changed radically between '79 and '84, depending on who was leading the project.
> By your reasoning, the Apple I was intended to be a mouse driven system because engelbart had a mouse prototype in 1968.
That is not my reasoning, and no one has claimed this, so your argument is a straw man fallacy.
> Also, if you talked to Jef, like I did when he was showing off the SwyftCard, he was not ashamed to tell you that the Mac was originally going to be a keyboard based system (like the SwyftCard or the Canon Cat.)
Argument from authority.[1]
> Steve Levy recorded these comments in "Insanely Great", the Wikipedia paraphrase is: "Secretly bypassing Job's ego and authority by continually securing permission and funding directly at the executive level, Raskin created and solely supervised the Macintosh project for approximately it's first year... it was Raskin who provided the powerful vision of a computer whose legacy would be low cost, high utility and a groundbreaking friendliness... it was text only, as Raskin disliked the computer mouse or anything that else that could take his hands from the keyboard."
While that is fascinating, Wikipedia doesn't have a dedicated article for Insanely Great.
> While it's tempting to believe the Mac sprung forth from Jobs forehead fully formed in 1984, it's just simply not true.
No one has claimed this but you in your above comments:
>>>>>> The line is sometime after early 1981, when Jobs took over the Macintosh project from Jef Raskin.
> Many people were involved in it's development and it's ultimate form changed radically between '79 and '84, depending on who was leading the project.
Finally, you have acknowledged the accuracy of my initial assertion that Mac development began in the late 1970's, unless 1979 is unexpectedly in some other decade.
I don't think that's the case.
Also, if you talked to Jef, like I did when he was showing off the SwyftCard, he was not ashamed to tell you that the Mac was originally going to be a keyboard based system (like the SwyftCard or the Canon Cat.)
Steve Levy recorded these comments in "Insanely Great", the Wikipedia paraphrase is: "Secretly bypassing Job's ego and authority by continually securing permission and funding directly at the executive level, Raskin created and solely supervised the Macintosh project for approximately it's first year... it was Raskin who provided the powerful vision of a computer whose legacy would be low cost, high utility and a groundbreaking friendliness... it was text only, as Raskin disliked the computer mouse or anything that else that could take his hands from the keyboard."
While it's tempting to believe the Mac sprung forth from Jobs forehead fully formed in 1984, it's just simply not true. Many people were involved in it's development and it's ultimate form changed radically between '79 and '84, depending on who was leading the project.