As you may or may not know, Jef Raskin, employee #31 at Apple Computer, passed away last week. I have always been impressed with Apples phillosophy, and products. (Check out Folklore.org for some great stories about the original Macintosh team.) For as much of a tyrant as Steve Jobs is rumored to be, he has something special goin’ on, and I think there was a lot of something special with all of the folks who helped build Apple Computer.
Below is a link to a paper that Jef Raskin wrote in back 1979, where he talks about what it would take to produce, sell and support sales of 1 million computers per year. Remember, in ‘79, there weren’t many personal computer being sold. Jef discusses the unbelievable goal of 1 million machines with amazing insight. I love the comments on support resources.
It’s mostly just an interesting read, from a computing pioneer.
Jef Raskin’s writings - Computers by the Millions (1979)