Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 308

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 308. Here are my solutions to them.

1: One of two of the three at the start, he left for 12 years with the successor before returning for one more thing.

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Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

One of two of the three at the start (co-founder of Apple with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne), he left for 12 years with the successor (from 1985-1997 he ran NeXT) before returning (in 1997, when Apple bought NeXT) for one more thing (his catch-phrase used to introduce a new product at the end of a keynote). Wikipedia.

2: Writer for Bannister and Crun who originated and named it without a mouse.

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Jef Raskin (1943-2005)

Writer for Bannister and Crun (he first worked for Apple as a contract writer through his company Bannister and Crun) who originated and named it (he created and named the Macintosh project in 1979) without a mouse (he originally disliked the mouse). Wikipedia.

3: First to copy and paste, then changed Pascal and Newton, but was always modeless.

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Larry Tesler (1945-2020)

First to copy and paste (he devised these when working at Xerox PARC), then changed Pascal (he worked with Niklaus Wirth to develop Object Pascal for Lisa and Mac) and Newton (he led development of Apple’s Newton device), but was always modeless (throughout his career he eschewed modal interfaces). Wikipedia.

The common factor

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They’re three of the most influential people responsible for the development of the Mac.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.