Monday, 28 February 2005 By Jason Walsh Jef Raskin, creator of the Apple Macintosh died on Saturday aged 61.Raskin was born in New York in 1943. He studied philosophy, mathematics, data processing and electronics. His formal education was in arts at the University of San Diego. Later, he taught data processing and fine art.
Raskin joined Apple as employee number 31 in 1978 to manage the publications department. In 1979, Raskin began what was to become the Apple Macintosh. Raskin is survived by his wife of 23 years, Linda Blum; his children, Aza, Aviva, and Aenea; and his children in all but name, Jenna and Rebecca. A memorial service will be announced at a later date. You can read Dogmatika's interview with Raskin here From: http://www.dogmatika.com/content/view/115/27 > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1417 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050304/47bdfa13/attachment.bin
