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| First 100 personalized Mac's | |
Posted by: slomacuser on 2026-02-18 02:03:27A little bit later, after we returned to Bandley 3, we were surprised by a large Apple truck that pulled up in the parking lot near the back of the building. It contained 100 brand new Macintoshes, one for each member of the team, personalized with a little plaque on the back. Steve presented one at a time to each team member with a handshake and a smile as the rest of us stood around cheering. SOURCE Lets make a list with pictures of first 100 Mac employee who got their personalized Mac. Here are some I have found so far. I am not the author of the pics. They can be found on the internet. All other info found on Folklore.org and from The mac Bathroom reader book by Owen W. Lynzmayer. 1. Andy Hertzfeld (Software wizard; wrote most of the Macintosh Toolbox. Left Apple in 1985)  2. Chris Espinoza (Supervised the writing of the manuals and technical documentation. Still works at Apple)  3. Daniel Kottke (Built prototypes and troubleshot boar-level problems. Left Apple in 1985)  4. Jerry Manock (Managed the industrial design engineers. Left Apple in 1985)  5. Steve Capps (Completed the Finder with Bruce Horn. Made Alice, first Macintosh game.)  6. Del Yocam (At Apple, during the 1980s, Yocam ran the Apple II group and later became Apple's first chief operating officer (COO)).  7. Ivan Mach (Optimized main logic and power sweep boards for factory automation. Left Apple in 1984).  | |
| Posted by: bibilit on 2026-02-18 04:39:48 Pretty cool, thanks | |
| Posted by: slomacuser on 2026-02-18 12:54:45 8. Dennis Grimm (Joined Apple's test engineering team and worked at their factory in Fremont, California. Photo by Bryan Bogaert)  | |
Posted by: Huguenot on 2026-02-18 13:25:52Lets make a list with pictures of first 100 Mac employee who got their personalized Mac. Here are some I have found so far. I am not the author of the pics. They can be found on the internet. All other info found on Folklore.org and from The mac Bathroom reader book by Owen W. Lynzmayer.9. Paul Tavenier (purchasing agent -responsible for "everything not soldered to the MLB". Eventually managed the Mac Supplier Quality Engineering Group. Left Apple at the end of 1984)  | |
| Posted by: slomacuser on 2026-02-18 21:42:42 Thanks Paul. Now we need to find other 91 plauqes 🙂 | |
Posted by: Huguenot on 2026-02-19 10:25:40Thanks Paul. Now we need to find other 91 plauqes 🙂I have in my possession a calendar that we all received at the Jan 1983 group off-site conference in Carmel, CA. Each member's birthday is printed on it and there are 90 names -3 of those (at least) left the group well before launch. Not sure how much detective work you want to do but I can scan it for you (or even post here if that is acceptable). It was at this meeting that the name Macintosh was agreed on (by vote) as the official product name, as well as when the whole "pirate" thing got started. (It's more fun being a pirate than joining the Navy. -S Jobs). The corporate types had discussed calling it the Apple 400 (Apple 4 being a non-starter since the Apple 3 had been such a flop). One of the marketing guys mentioned that the name was very close to Mcintosh -the stereo hi-fi people. Before the day was out Apple legal had negotiated a deal with Mcintosh allowing us to use the name, IIRC Apple paid $40k for the rights. | |
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