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I wanted to share this as I have just finished interviewing former Apple senior engineer Ron Johnston (ex Lisa, Spartacus and A/UX). After a long chat he said, 'I have one more sto…

thanks for the positive vibes yann, that's a nice touch

thanks for the positive vibes scriptweaver

thanks darkwater

per: the scans, the patent isn't for TIFF and the articles misspell his name. I think that the Paul Brainerd (Aldus cofounder) interview with the Computer History Museum, when he n…

thanks for the feedback

i do like the 'lighting up the lamps'

hi kilibe, thanks for your interest. i have concentrated on apple in the era when jobs isn't there to cancel or squash ideas and invention. many folks, not unlike stephen, come out…

Carlsen's TIFF extensibility was what Milne and Lentczner used as a guiding principal when building AIFF, as did Leak on QuickTime years later.

thanks daniel. i swapped a few emails with stephen's ex-wife and they melted my heart. i asked if she was OK with sharing this story of a humble genius with the wider world and she…

thanks isoprophlex for the acknowledgment. so many of the folks that i have interviewed, contributed so much to making tech or a product better for all. especially at or around app…

well said svat. without laboring the point, "once you know - you know". until then it is like trying to find a needle in a haystack - and some people do not want to be found.

thank you sethx

thank you

Thanks oisin, it's a beautiful story and his ex-wife gave me permission to share.

my kids made the avatar so...sorry if it triggers

thanks for the response burnto

i crossed my fingers for the first 24 hours but i now think admins and mod, to their credit, understand it's the truth.

i've interviewed 100 folks in this space, in part because they are older than us.

i didn't want to push the book too hard, given the tone of the story. thanks for the feedback.

Somebody subscribed to my blog with ref to hacker news so i just poked my head in :-)

thanks gnerd

thanks righthand, i guess it was just curiosity that led me down the path. most people do give a sh## but i hear you. i also had the time to search, as i wasn't super busy with wor…

hi andre, thanks for the feedback. there is a url link within the article to the book which uses a new self publishing method called books.by