Everything about Andy Hertzfeld totally explained
Andy Hertzfeld (born
April 6,
1953) was a key member of the original
Apple Macintosh development team during the 1980s. After buying an Apple II in January 1978, he went to work for
Apple Computer from August 1979 until March 1984, where he was a key designer of the
Macintosh system software. Since leaving Apple, he's co-founded three companies:
Radius in 1986,
General Magic in 1990 and
Eazel in 1999. In 2002, he helped
Mitch Kapor promote
open source software with the
Open Source Applications Foundation. Hertzfeld joined
Google in 2005 and has been working there since.
Career
Apple Computer (1979–1984)
After graduating from
Brown University with a
Computer Science degree in 1975, Hertzfeld attended
graduate school at the
University of California, Berkeley. In 1978, he bought an
Apple II computer and soon began developing software for it. He was hired by Apple Computer as a systems programmer in 1979 and developed the
Apple SilenType printer
firmware and the first 80-column card for the Apple II. In the early 1980s, he invited his high school friend, artist
Susan Kare, to join Apple in order to help design what would become standard Macintosh icons.
Hertzfeld's business card at Apple listed his title as
Software Wizard. He wrote large portions of the Macintosh's original system software including much of the burned-in
ROM code, the User Interface Toolbox, and a number of innovative components now standard in many graphic user interfaces, like the
Control Panel and
Scrapbook.
After a shakeup in the Apple II team and at Hertzfeld's request, Apple co-founder
Steve Jobs added him to the newly formed Macintosh team in February, 1981. Working for
Bud Tribble alongside
Bill Atkinson and
Burrell Smith, Hertzfeld became a primary software architect of the
Macintosh Operating System, which was considered revolutionary in its use of the
graphical user interface (GUI) where
Jef Raskin also made significant contributions.
After Apple (1984–present)
Since leaving Apple in 1984, Hertzfeld has co-founded three new companies —
Radius (1986),
General Magic (1990) and
Eazel (1999). At Eazel, he helped to create the
Nautilus file manager for
Linux's GNOME desktop. He volunteered for
OSAF in 2002 and 2003, writing early prototypes of their information manager. In 1996, Hertzfeld was interviewed by
Robert Cringely on the television show
Triumph of the Nerds, and was again interviewed by Cringely on NerdTV in 2005.
In early 2004, he started
folklore.org, a
web site devoted to collective storytelling that contains dozens of
anecdotes about the development of the original Macintosh. The stories have been collected in an
O'Reilly book,
Revolution in the Valley, published in December 2004. In August 2005, Hertzfeld joined
Google.
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