<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Wow, the young Steve Jobs and Owen on the same stage, together with Andrew Hertzfeld and Bill Atkinson. I didn't know he knew all of them. Has he got Apple shares as compensation back then? Apple shares from 1984 must be worth a fortune now.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-J.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Stephen Guerin <stephen.guerin@simtable.com> </div><div>Date: 1/30/24 9:55 PM (GMT+01:00) </div><div>To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com>, "Wedtech@Redfish. Com" <wedtech@redfish.com> </div><div>Subject: [FRIAM] 0 years ago today - Our Owen Densmore as a leading star on stage with Jobs unveiling the first Macintosh </div><div><br></div></div><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 style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif" id="gmail-00_678440">When</span> <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif" id="gmail-00_678590">we</span> <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif" id="gmail-00_679310">did</span> <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif" id="gmail-00_679960">the</span> <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif" id="gmail-00_680750">Macintosh,</span> <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif" id="gmail-00_680840">we</span> <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif" 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style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif" id="gmail-00_716330">into</span> <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif" id="gmail-00_716620">corporate</span> <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif" id="gmail-00_716900">America,</span> <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif" id="gmail-00_716960">where</span> <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif" id="gmail-00_717170">it</span> <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif" id="gmail-00_717380">could</span> <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif" id="gmail-00_718340">show</span> <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif" id="gmail-00_718490">its</span> <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif" id="gmail-00_718910">owners</span> <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif" id="gmail-00_719510">all</span> <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif" id="gmail-00_719840">the</span> <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif" id="gmail-00_720110">other</span> <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif" id="gmail-00_720620">wonderful</span> <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif" id="gmail-00_721460">things</span> <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif" id="gmail-00_721790">it</span> <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif" id="gmail-00_722060">could</span> <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Inter,sans-serif;margin-bottom:0px" id="gmail-00_722150">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 data-smartmail="gmail_signature" class="gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">_____________________________________________________________________________________________________<br><a href="mailto:stephen.guerin@simtable.com">stephen.guerin@simtable.com</a> <br><div><a href="mailto:stephenguerin@fas.harvard.edu">stephenguerin@fas.harvard.edu</a><br><a href="https://hwpi.harvard.edu/eps-visualization-research-laboratory/home">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>
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