Rich Whicker

Richard E. Whicker (born may 1942) was a member of the "Twiggy" team at Apple Computer.

Early life and education
Whicker was born in San Francisco, California and received a B.S. in electrical engineering from the in 1966.

Career
Whicker settled down in Santa Clara and joined Hewlett-Packard in 1972. He became the project leader for the series of pocket calculators.

Apple Computer
Whicker joined Apple in 1979 as employee #219 and was part of the team that worked on the early "Twiggy" Macintosh prototype.

After Apple
In 1995, Whicker and Bob Bishop, another former Apple engineer, collaborated on the development of the programming language for children. Whicker started a short-lived business called Touch Systems, then returned after a lengthy sabbatical to work for. He stayed mostly local to Cupertino, and at one time owned a second home in the community of, where many homes have an airplane hanger and the ability to taxi personal aircraft to the 's runaway. As of 2023, he lives with his wife Sharon in.