<div dir="ltr">The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsjMmAqmblQ&ab_channel=BloombergOriginals">1984 Macintosh Ad</a> shown during the Jan 22 Superbowl teased the Jan 26, 1984 introduction of the Mac at the Apple Shareholders meeting (I don't have the video).
Jobs did a demo and then a panel discussion with 8 members of the software and hardware team The whole presentation including the developer panel was repeated 4 days later at a Boston Computer Society meeting. Our Owen Densmore is one of those 8 as the software engineer lured from Xerox to work on WYSIWIG printing and embedding a software rendering engine in the printer itself. here's the time codes of these discussions<br><ul><li><a href="https://youtu.be/1tQ5XwvjPmA?feature=shared&t=1336">https://youtu.be/1tQ5XwvjPmA?feature=shared&t=1336</a> – Jobs explaining the printer</li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/1tQ5XwvjPmA?feature=shared&t=1741">https://youtu.be/1tQ5XwvjPmA?feature=shared&t=1741</a> - Owen introduction</li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/1tQ5XwvjPmA?feature=shared&t=2379">https://youtu.be/1tQ5XwvjPmA?feature=shared&t=2379</a> - Randy Wigginton nods to Owen’s printer work</li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/1tQ5XwvjPmA?feature=shared&t=2683">https://youtu.be/1tQ5XwvjPmA?feature=shared&t=2683</a> - Printing question answered by Jobs and Owen</li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/1tQ5XwvjPmA?feature=shared&t=3352">https://youtu.be/1tQ5XwvjPmA?feature=shared&t=3352</a> - Owen gets up to get a floppy disk :]</li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/1tQ5XwvjPmA?feature=shared&t=3744">https://youtu.be/1tQ5XwvjPmA?feature=shared&t=3744</a> - Owen comments on the Mac’s multi-tasking abilities</li></ul><div>Owen left Apple to join Sun in the last half of the 80s and worked on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS">NeWS </a>- postscipt-based windowing system. NeXT would later adopt instead of QuickDraw for its windowing system.<br><br></div><div>When Jobs was at NeXT, he <a href="https://infinite.mit.edu/video/steve-jobs-next-computer-corp-sloan-distinguished-speaker-series">gave this talk at MIT Sloan School</a> ~8 years later. In the talk, I find his observations interesting esp wrt to how important printing and desktop publishing would be for the Mac and they didn't predict it. <br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.45rem;padding:0px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Inter;font-size:15px"><i><span id="gmail-00_678440" style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif">When</span> <span id="gmail-00_678590" style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif">we</span> <span id="gmail-00_679310" style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif">did</span> <span id="gmail-00_679960" style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif">the</span> <span id="gmail-00_680750" style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif">Macintosh,</span> <span id="gmail-00_680840" style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif">we</span> <span id="gmail-00_680960" 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style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif">industry</span> <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif">really</span> <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif">coming</span> <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif">down</span> <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif">to</span> <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif">the</span> <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif">desktop.</span> <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif">Maybe</span> <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif">we</span> <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif">weren't</span> <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif">smart</span> <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif;margin-bottom:0px">enough.</span></i></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 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style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif">owners</span> <span id="gmail-00_719510" style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif">all</span> <span id="gmail-00_719840" style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif">the</span> <span id="gmail-00_720110" style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif">other</span> <span id="gmail-00_720620" style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif">wonderful</span> <span id="gmail-00_721460" style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif">things</span> <span id="gmail-00_721790" style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif">it</span> <span id="gmail-00_722060" style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif">could</span> <span id="gmail-00_722150" style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif;margin-bottom:0px">do.</span></i><br></p></div></blockquote><div>Apple has Owen to thank for that!<br><br>Redfish, btw, was an Apple VAR in the early 90s helping commercial printers to prepress - digital scanning, digital halftoning, color separation, digital imaging (early photoshop), plate-ready film printing, and page layout (QuarkXpress and PageMaker). Of course, I didn't know Owen yet - I would first meet him at the 2000 Complex Systems Summer School where we were both students from the BusNet. I was from BiosGroup and Owen from Sun R&D Labs.<br><br>Mad respect for your changing the world, Owen! And you ain't done yet. :-)<br><br>-Stephen</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">_____________________________________________________________________________________________________<br><a href="mailto:stephen.guerin@simtable.com" target="_blank">stephen.guerin@simtable.com</a> <br><div><a href="mailto:stephenguerin@fas.harvard.edu" target="_blank">stephenguerin@fas.harvard.edu</a><br><a href="https://hwpi.harvard.edu/eps-visualization-research-laboratory/home" target="_blank">Harvard Visualization Research and Teaching Lab</a><br><div><div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">mobile: (505)577-5828</span></div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>