Oral History of Rich Page
Richard Page is an engineer who was the Vice President of Digital Hardware Engineering at NeXT.
Early life and education[]
Page was born in Vallejo, California in 1951 and grew up in Belmont, near San Francisco. He received his bachelor's degrees in math and physics and master's degree in computer science from San Jose State University.[1]
Career[]
Page first worked at Fairchild Semiconductor while still in college in 1972. He was then recruited by John Couch to work on the HP 3000 minicomputer at Hewlett-Packard.[1]
Apple Computer[]
Page was recruited by co-founder Steve Jobs to join Apple Computer at the urging of Couch, who himself had joined Apple in 1978.[1] Page became responsible for the decision to use the Motorola 68000 processor in the Lisa and the first Macintosh 128K. He became an Apple Fellow in 1983.[2] Page then prototyped Apple's first portable computer and 68020-based system. The 68020 prototype, named "Big Mac", was used to develop MacPaint 2.0. However, it was passed over for a NuBus slot-based design that was used for the Macintosh II.[3]
NeXT[]
Page (bearded, back row) and the founding members of NeXT.
When Apple co-founder Steve Jobs left the company in 1985, Page also left and joined Jobs as a founding member of NeXT. Page was responsible for developing the NeXTcube and NeXTstation. He left NeXT in 1992, shortly before its hardware division was closed.[4]
After NeXT[]
Page became executive chairman of Chowbotics, a food preparation robotics company.[5]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Artifact Details: Page, Rich oral history, Computer History Museum. 2018-11-07.
- ↑ Credit Where Due by Andy Hertzfeld, Folklore.org, January 1983. Retrieved May 26, 2006.
- ↑ Evolution Of A Classic by David Ramsey, Folklore. 1986-03.
- ↑ People by Rixstep, The NeXTonian. Accessed 2020-06-11.
- ↑ Chowbotics Takes Sally The Salad Robot On Tour by Emily Jed, Vending Times. 2018-04-05.