Bob Belleville on Steve Jobs
Robert L. "Bob" Belleville is an American computer engineer who was an early head of engineering at Apple Computer from 1982 until 1985.
Career[]
Belleville worked at Xerox, where he was a primary designer of the hardware for the Xerox Star.[1][2] Steve Jobs is said to have invited him to join Apple by saying, "Everything you've ever done in your life is s---, ... so why don't you come work for me?"[3] In May 1982 he became software manager for the Macintosh 128K; in August that year he became engineering manager of the Macintosh division. As Apple Director of Engineering, he played a major role in developing the LaserWriter.[1][4][5] He resigned from Apple in summer 1985 after Jobs announced his resignation,[6] and later worked at Silicon Graphics.[1]
In Alex Gibney's documentary Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, Belleville said that the pressure of working at Apple had ended his marriage[7][8] and that Jobs "[was always apparently] seducing you, vilifying you, or ignoring you",[9] but he cried when he recalled working for him.[7][10][11]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made", O'Reilly Media, 2005, p. xxi.
- ↑ Hiltzik, Michael A.. "Fans Celebrate Fallen Xerox Star", Los Angeles Times, June 22, 1998.
- ↑ Baer, Drake. "This Bill Gates Quote Summarizes What The Tech World Thought Of Steve Jobs", Business Insider, January 16, 2015.
- ↑ Canon, Lone Wolf. Wired (October 1, 1994).
- ↑ Livingston, Jessica. "Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days", Apress, p. 285.
- ↑ "Behind the Fall of Steve Jobs", Fortune, August 5, 1985.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 'Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine' to make TV Debut on CNN/U.S.. CNN (December 9, 2015).
- ↑ Woodard, Johnny. "Movie review: Apple founder's dark side revealed in 'Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine'", The Island Packet, September 7, 2015.
- ↑ Anderson, John. "Review: Alex Gibney's Documentary Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine Pulls Back the Curtain", Time, August 26, 2015.
- ↑ Slotek, Jim. "'Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine' review: Documentary a brutally honest look at Apple genius", Toronto Sun, August 21, 2015.
- ↑ Hertzfeld, Andy (March 1984). Leave Of Absence.
Further reading[]
- Unicode 88. Unicode Consortium (1998-09-10). Archived from the original on 2016-11-25. Retrieved on 2016-10-25. “In 1978, the initial proposal for a set of "Universal Signs" was made by Bob Belleville at Xerox PARC. Many persons contributed ideas to the development of a new encoding design. Beginning in 1980, these efforts evolved into the Xerox Character Code Standard (XCCS) by the present author, a multilingual encoding which has been maintained by Xerox as an internal corporate standard since 1982, through the efforts of Ed Smura, Ron Pellar, and others.”
- The Final Demonstration of the Xerox 'Star' Computer, 1981 pp. 6–8. Computer History Museum (June 17, 1998). Belleville's account of the development of the Xerox Star. 2 videocassettes
See also[]
External links[]
- Bob Belleville at Folklore
- Bob Belleville at the Internet Movie Database
- Bob Belleville at Wikipedia
