Hertzfeld, Andy oral history, part 1 of 2
<p>Andy Hertzfeld was born in 1953 in Philadelphia, studied applied math and CS at Brown, and pursued a PhD in CS at Berkeley. After seeing the Apple II debut in 1977, he started writing, publishing and selling Apple II software. Hired by Apple in 1979 initially in the Apple II team, Hertzfeld befriended and aided Burrell Smith in the Macintosh team and eventually joined him there, becoming its second software engineer. Hertzfeld completed the port of QuickDraw from Lisa to Macintosh and wrote much of the Toolbox code and many desk accessories. Conflict with manager Bob Belleville contributed to Hertzfeld leaving Apple after the Macintosh launch. Afterwards, Hertzfeld developed Switcher, which allowed multitasking on the Macintosh for the first time, and helped organize the 1984 Hacker’s Conference.</p>
Item Details
- Date
- 09-24-2025 (Made)
- Type
- Document
- Catalogue number
- 300000188
- People
- Hansen Hsu (Interviewer)
Andy Hertzfeld (Interviewee) - Category
- Transcript
- Format
- Credit line
- Computer History Museum
- Extent
- 43 pages
- Place of publication
- North America/USA/CA/Mountain View
- Language
- English
- Acquisition number
- 2025.0173
- Subject
- UC Berkeley, Apple II (Computer), Apple Lisa (Computer), NeXT
- Archive collection
- CHM Oral History Collection
- Archive hierarchy
- CHM Oral History Collection