Bill Atkinson

Artifacts

9 artifacts in the collection

Apple Computer, Inc. 1994

Apple eWorld (Stickers)

Apple Computer, Inc. 1997

Apple Newton Connection Utilities User’s Manual (for the Macintosh Operating System)

Apple Computer, Inc. 1994

Apple Newton MessagePad 120 Package

Apple Computer, Inc. 1994

Apple Newton MessagePad Getting Through the Day … (Brochure)

Apple Computer, Inc. 1994

Apple Newton MessagePad Handbook

General Magic, Inc. 1996

General Magic Visitor’s Badge (John Jerney, 10/25/1996)

Apple 2026

Newton Solutions Guide

Eidetic, Inc. 1994

Notion: The Newton List Manager User Manual

General Magic, Inc. 1994

Sony Magic Link PIC-1000 Personal Intelligent Communicator

Organizations

Organization 1976–2025

Apple Computer, Inc.

Cupertino, California

Organization

GM

General Magic, Inc.

Sunnyvale, California

1990-

Oral History

Connections

Mentions

Where Bill Atkinson is named across the museum — in timeline entries, journal articles, and the narratives of related artifacts, organizations, and people.

Timeline

• Apple Announces Support for General Magic Technologies Timeline entry … signed to look beyond personal computing. Two of its three founders -- Andy Hertzfeld and Bill Atkinson -- were principal members of the original Macintosh development team. Third co-founder an …
• Apple Creates New Spinout Company Timeline entry ×2 … nounced the formation of a new spinout company, General Magic Inc. Former Apple employees Bill Atkinson, Andy Hertzfeld and Marc Porat founded the new company and will serve as General Magic's …

Journal

• A Conversation with General Magic's Andy Hertzfeld Journal article ×2 … ter deciding to drop the Frox project, he received a call from his old friend from Apple, Bill Atkinson. Atkinson was incredibly excited about a set of ideas he had heard at Apple from a guy ca …
• A Conversation with General Magic's Andy Hertzfeld Journal article ×2 … ap for many people is to note its reasonable similarity to Apple's HyperCard, designed by Bill Atkinson. Hertzfeld addressed this by saying: "We wrote the original prototype in HyperCard becaus …
• Can Apple Move into Consumer Electronics? Journal article … rties like Random House. Apple's approach to these things apparently didn't sit well with Bill Atkinson when he was still with the company, and was reportedly the reason for his founding Genera …
• Executive View: A Conversation with General Magic's Jim White Journal article … e how to attack the communications part. "The people who founded the company, principally Bill Atkinson and Andy Hertzfeld, were not particularly communication people; they were wizards in the …
• General Magic Shows its Bag of Tricks Journal article … was all the more frustrating because of the reputation of the founding team, Marc Porat, Bill Atkinson, and Andy Hertzfeld — particularly Atkinson and Hertzfeld, who were instrumental in the d …
• General Magic UnCAPs a Genie in Telescript Journal article … ction to the nationwide SkyTel paging system. As you would expect from Andy Hertzfeld and Bill Atkinson, developers of the Macintosh operating system and the HyperCard application, Magic CAP is …
• General Magic Ventures into the Public Journal article … the company with 2,154,350 shares following the offering. Co-founders Andy Hertzfeld and Bill Atkinson and their families will retain 7.8% and 7.4% of the outstanding shares giving them 1,754, …
• Sony's Magical Tour de Force Journal article … first be drawn to the ground-breaking user interface design led by the legendary team of Bill Atkinson and Andy Hertzfeld, and incorporated into the Magic Cap operating system. The highly intu …
• Technology Overview: The Promise of PCMCIA Journal article … evices as simple as the phone or television. The importance of this cannot be overstated. Bill Atkinson, co-founder of General Magic recently commented on what the flashing "12:00" is saying to …