Artifact Details

Title

Rose, Caroline oral history

Catalog Number

102808938

Type

Document

Description

Caroline Rose, née Rufolo, was born (1947) and raised in Queens, New York. She suffered rheumatic fever as a child and alternated between home school and Catholic schools. She graduated with a mathematics degree from Queens College in 1967.

Caroline moved to California in 1967 and became a technical writer at Tymshare. From 1969 to 1976, she became a programmer before returning to technical writing, all while working at Tymshare.

Caroline joined Apple in 1982 to write the award-winning Inside Macintosh, the technical documentation for the Macintosh Toolbox APIs. She followed Steve Jobs to NeXT to become its documentation manager in 1986, but left Iin 1991 after suffering a repetitive strain injury. She then rejoined Apple in its Tech Support group to take over develop, Apple’s award-winning technical journal. Leaving Apple in 1997 after Jobs returned, Caroline started her own freelance consultancy, with clients including Apple, Adobe, Genentech, Netscape, and Sony.

Date

2023-11-28

Contributor

Hsu, Hansen, Interviewer

Rose, Caroline, Interviewee

Weber, Marc, Interviewer

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Place of Publication

Mountain View, CA

Extent

50 p.

Format

PDF

Subject

New York; Queens; Catholic; Tymshare; Apple; Apple III (Computer); Macintosh; NeXT; WriteNow; FrameMaker; Espinosa, Chris; Jobs, Steve; Hertzfeld, Andy; Tribble, Bud; Engst, Adam; Engst, Tonya; TidBITS; Kissell, Joe

Collection Title

CHM Oral History Collection

Credit