Bill Atkinson, the computer engineer at Apple who played a critical role in the development of the Macintosh operating system ...

"A computer that would work for a single person ... He studied every inch of this early Mac in detail, enthusing about tiny differences between it and the version that made it to market ...

You may not know his name, but Steve Jobs was so desparate to hire Bill Atkinson that he went to extraordinary lengths to ...

His work set the direction of modern computer interfaces, and much more Obit Bill Atkinson, widely acclaimed as perhaps the ...

As Apple employee No. 51, Atkinson transformed abstract computer science into intuitive visual experiences that millions ...

“The freshmen now entering Drexel [in the early 1980s] will spend the greater portion of their professional lives in the 21st century, in an environment in which the computer will be an everyday, even ...

My first meeting with Bill Atkinson was unforgettable. It was November 1983, and reporting for Rolling Stone, I had gained access to the team building the Macintosh computer, scheduled to launch early ...

Floppy drives were slow, and early Mac users had to endure the hassle of constantly swapping floppy disks in and out of the Mac, so the computer could access both the operating system and apps.

If you're feeling nostalgic, you can attempt to recreate an early Macintosh computer running Mac OS 7, an operating system that dates back to the early '90s. Don't expect to get a replacement ...