John Buck

Close Your Rings

In the past few years, I have been lucky enough (blessed) to interview former Apple employees like Steve Milne, who invented the AIFF format (still used 37 years on), Jon Krakower, who created

Unix on the Mac

Unknown to Steve Jobs a team at Apple was working on a Unix Macintosh. Former Lisa software manager Ron Johnston recalls: A friend of mine from college, Steve Smith, also went to HP

Chuck and Steve

It was late winter of 1979 with the holiday police debacle behind me, and I’d been working at Apple for the better part of two years. I was feverishly attempting to finish

Chuck and Woz

I had built the first 80-column video card but I still hadn’t decided on a name! Grant (Jasmin), my business partner, and I put our heads together and came up with SmarTerm®

Big Mistake

Bob Brunner, an industrial designer at Lunar, had been approached in 1989 to become Apple's new ID boss, but he declined. “They came back months later, laid their cards on the