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Randy Wigginton

Apple's sixth employee and author of MacWrite.

EngineeringmacOS
The work

What we are celebrating, specifically.

  • Wrote machine-language graphics routines for the Apple II and helped complete the Disk II controller software with Wozniak on the eve of CES 1978.
  • Created MacWrite, the word processor that shipped with the 1984 Macintosh and showed the world what a graphical document could be.

Apple

Apple II & Macintosh software

Joined in 1976 as Apple's sixth employee; wrote software from the Apple II era through the original Mac.

Why

Why we celebrate them.

You were writing Apple's software as a teenager and helped the Mac find its words. Thank you, Randy, for being there from the beginning.

Sources — their own pages, so you can check us

  • Wikipedia
  • folklore.org
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