I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.

In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just because I had the power to do so, which I'd never had on a computer before

I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.

As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess.

I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.

Apple was our benefactor at starting General Magic, but about a year later decided they would rather BE General Magic and tried to make us blink out of existence... which we eventually did, but it took a few years.

I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.