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So he put Newton in the hands of Larry Tesler, an engineer who had left Xerox’s prestigious PARC facility in 1980 to join Apple and by this stage was running the company’s internal think-tank, the Advanced Technology Group. A visionary he might think himself, but he knew he wasn’t a product designer. Of course, Sculley was also aware of his limitations as an engineer. The erstwhile Pepsi chief would be viewed as something more than a clever seller of sugary drinks. It reminded him of a concept he’d described in his 1987 book Odyssey: the 'Knowledge Navigator', a kind of hardware information browser. It was a product for which Sculley himself could claim ownership and establish his credentials as a forward-thinking head of a technology company.

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It was no pet project of Steve Jobs, as the Mac had been. He saw a product that was very technologically advanced which would enhance not only Apple’s reputation but his own.

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His LinkedIn page now lists him as a computer software consultant.īack at Apple, Sculley began taking a closer interest in the Newton project. Sakoman went to work for Palm Computing spin-off PalmSource when it acquired Be and, in 2003, briefly rejoined Apple.

Later that year, he hooked up with Gassée, and the two went on to co-found Be to develop a new desktop computer and a multi-processing, multi-tasking OS to go with it. This management reshuffle didn’t go down at all well with Sakoman, and that same month he quit Apple too. On 2 March 1990, Gassée gave his notice and said he’d leave the company on 30 September. In January 1990, Apple CEO John Sculley named Michael Spindler Chief Operating Officer, knocking Gassée down a rung on the corporate ladder. His 'no compromise' attitude to product engineering at the expense of such – to him – petty matters as release schedules and usability didn’t go down well with Sculley. In any case, the engineering chief’s own star was no longer in the ascendant. During the late 1980s, as Steve Sakoman’s three-year deadline began to draw close, Gassée began to believe they had all bitten off more than they could chew. Apple’s Larry Tesler, who took over the Newton project in 1990, and Steve Capps, another Apple engineer, both agreed to watch a demo, and ended up licensing the ParaGraph software for Newton.īut that came later.

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Another, more prosaic telling has Russian software boffin Stepan Pachikov, founder of Moscow-based software house ParaGraph International, much later hawking his PC-based handwriting recognition code around Silicon Valley. The disk contained cursive handwriting recognition software. Back home, he passed the code on to Gassée who passed it on to Sakoman. Apple senior VP Al Eisenstat was unexpectedly handed a floppy disk by a nervous Russian during a 1987 trip to Moscow.

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