Bana Witt

Bana Witt was a personal assistant to Jef Raskin, who initiated the Macintosh project at Apple Computer.

Career
Witt first met Jef Raskin as her music teacher at the. She later joined him at Bannister and Crun, a two-person technical consulting firm, where Raskin and Brian Howard were contracted to produce a manual for Steve Wozniak's Integer BASIC at Apple Computer.

Apple Computer
Apple was pleased with the results of Raskin and Howard's work and hired them in January 1978 to form the company's new publications department. Witt also joined Raskin and Howard as Apple employee #49. In 1979, Raskin submitted a proposal for an information appliance computer that would become the Macintosh.

In 1980, Witt married Apple engineer Bruce Tognazzini. The ceremony was conducted by Raskin.

After Apple
Witt became an author and poet, and later returned for a 15th anniversary reunion of Apple II staff.