Steve Capps is a computer programmer and engineer who is best known
for his work on the Apple Inc. Macintosh computer and Newton OS during
the 1980s and 1990s. He started working at the Xerox Corporation while
still a computer science student at the Rochester Institute of
Technology. In 1981, Capps started working for Apple on the Lisa
project and he continued his work on the Macintosh, principally
writing the Finder and Macintosh system utilities.
During a break in 1986, he wrote three music programs including Jam
Session, SoundEdit, and Super Studio Session; SoundEdit was eventually
sold to Macromedia. From 1987 to 1996, he was the chief architect and
Apple Fellow for the Newton, where he led the specification and
development of the user interface of Newton, shepherded the team of
software developers, and wrote many portions of the built-in
application software. From 1996 until 2001, he was a user interface
architect at Microsoft. His early work at Microsoft resulted in the
Internet Explorer Search, History, and Favorites panes. He was also a
co-founder of the MSN Explorer project.
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"As I was looking for Info about the Newton Message Pads,
I stumble upon a Blog at Blogger.com which had an article about Steve
Capps which I've always admired ever since I read about him when I
read a book about the Apple company,
This is a great interview, as he speaks a lot about the Macintosh, the
Alice Game and the newton
and if you are a Mac Fan, you'll enjoy it,"
The interviews I think were made this year 2009
and as a plus, these guys also interview Maedi, Yes!, from Macgarden,
so I hope Maedi don't mind, but if he does, I'll take the link down,
(BTW, Nice voice Maedi!)
-Euryale
The files are in .M4a format and QuickTime has no problem dealing with
this,
the Interviews start at around the 14th minute on each file
Steve Capps Interview pt 1 (42 Mb)
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http://rapidshare.com/files/293517101/115_Steve_Capps_interview_Part_1.m4a>
Steve Capps interview pt 2 (30Mb)
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http://rapidshare.com/files/293533161/116_Steve_Capps_interview_Part_2.m4a>
Macgarden-Maedi Interview (18Mb)
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http://rapidshare.com/files/293541371/RetroMacCast_117__Macintosh_Garden...][1]
Compatibility
Architecture: 68k PPC
QuickTime Player
Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh
[1]:
http://rapidshare.com/files/293541371/RetroMacCast_117__Macintosh_Garden.m4a (
http://rapidshare.com/files/293541371/RetroMacCast_117__Macintosh_Garden.m4a)
