Rich Whicker

Richard E. Whicker 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 University of Illinois in 1966.

Career
Whicker settled down in Santa Clara and joined Hewlett-Packard in 1972. He became the project leader for the HP-21 series of pocket calculators.

Apple Computer
Whicker joined Apple in 1979 as employee #320 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.