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I still have my two Magic Links, a bunch of SRAM cards, and a bunch of shrink wrapped software. Lost my telebug cable years ago. GM is where Andy Rubin learned
by manv1 4y ago
I still have my two Magic Links, a bunch of SRAM cards, and a bunch of shrink wrapped software. Lost my telebug cable years ago.
GM is where Andy Rubin learned how to leverage carrier partnerships. He took that knowledge to Android and the rest is history.
Also, Pierre Omidyar of eBay worked in GMDTS.
They were a bunch of Really Smart Guys over there. Good Times.
- bitsavers 4y agoI worked with a bunch of them at Apple, like Zarko (RIP) and Phil (RIP). Hung out there a little bit, got to meet one of my PARC heroes (Ed Satterthwaite) Andy went from there to Artemis/WebTV, Danger, then Android.
- classichasclass 4y ago(author) What software did you have for them?
- manv1 4y agoI have Presto!Links, Presto!Mail, the Magic Bag Game Pack, and MagicXchange in boxes. I was the tech lead on MagicXchange/Mac for a while and worked at Active Paper on the Presto stuff, and was the lead on Presto!Links (which was subsequently bought by GM). Greg Branche and Jim Murphy also worked at GM (the MPW guys). Funny that spies.org is still registered. That's where all those guys used to hang out. Nice to see Josh's website is still around.
- manv1 4y agoOh, they brought in Waldemar Horwat and he worked on the Rosemary runtime. For those who don't know, he wrote the TMON low-level Mac debugger when he was a teenager and has gone on to do all kinds of stuff.
- joshu 4y agoMegan Smith and Tony Fadell too
- dboreham 4y agoJohn Giannandrea