![]() ![]() His experiences testing Applesoft BASIC inspired him to design a competing product, called Notzo BASIC, which was never implemented. Because the Apple II only displayed uppercase characters on a 40-column screen, his department used the Polymorphic Systems 8813 (an Intel-8080-based machine running CP/M), to write documentation this spurred the development of an 80-column display card and a suitable text editor for the Apple II. For some time he continued as Director of Publications and New Product Review, and also worked on packaging and other issues.įrom his responsibility for documentation and testing, Raskin had great influence on early engineering projects. ![]() In January 1978 Raskin joined Apple as Manager of Publications, the company's 31st employee. Steve Jobs hired his firm, Bannister and Crun, which was named for two characters in the BBC radio comedy The Goon Show, to write the Apple II BASIC Programming Manual. Raskin first met Apple Computer's Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak following the debut of their Apple II personal computer at the first West Coast Computer Faire. He occasionally wrote for computer publications, such as Dr. Raskin later enrolled in a graduate music program at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), but stopped to teach art, photography and computer science there, working as an assistant professor from 1970 until 1974. ![]() His first computer program, a music program, was part of his master's thesis. In 1967 he earned a master's degree in computer science at Pennsylvania State University. 1965) at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. ![]()
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