Christopher Espinosa papers, 1978-1992.

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Christopher Espinosa papers, 1978-1992.

Notebooks, 1988-1992; memos, 1979-1986; APPLE II and APPLE III operating, programing, and reference manuals, 1978-1983; Apple Resource dirctories, 1986-1988; three videos (Apple history in the making, 1991; Worldview demo, 1987; and Wild Card demo, 1987); three CD-ROMs (The Beta Release, 1990; The Apple reference & presentations library v4.0, 1990; and The virtual museum, 1992); two audio cassettes (Radio Apple, 1988); 55 floppy 5"-disks; and two t-shirts.

3 linear feet.

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Apple Computer, Inc. was incorporated on January 3, 1977. Apple Computer, Inc., ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II, and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh, of which it had sold more 30 million systems as of the end of 1998. Apple's original mission as articulated by its co-founder Steven Jobs was to bring the best personal computing products and support to students, educators, designers, scientists, engineers, business persons an...

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As a high school student at Homestead High, Chris Espinosa was an early regular at Homebrew Computing Club meetings, and was employee number 8 at Apple. He developed programs to show at demos of the machine, and ran public demos of the Apple II until 1978, when he graduated from high school and started his freshman year at the University of California, Berkeley. While at Berkeley, he rewrote the Apple II user guide at the behest of Jef Raskin, Apple's publications manager. He returned to Apple f...