Biography:Bob Belleville
Robert L. Belleville is an American computer engineer who was an early head of engineering at Apple from 1982 until 1985.
Bob Belleville | |
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| Born | Robert L. Belleville |
| Occupation | Software Manager at Apple (1982–1985) |
| Years active | 1982–present |
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 Hertzfeld, Andy; Capps, Steve (2005). Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made. Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly Media. p. xxi. ISBN 9780596007195. https://books.google.com/books?id=VQQCtFT1CGIC&pg=PR21.
- ↑ Hiltzik, Michael A. (June 22, 1998). "Fans Celebrate Fallen Xerox Star". Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/1998/jun/22/business/fi-62387.
- ↑ Baer, Drake (January 16, 2015). "This Bill Gates Quote Summarizes What The Tech World Thought Of Steve Jobs". Business Insider. http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-on-steve-jobs-2015-1.
- ↑ "Canon, Lone Wolf". Wired. October 1, 1994. https://www.wired.com/1994/10/canon/.
- ↑ Livingston, Jessica (2008). "Charles Geschke, Cofounder, Adobe Systems". Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days. Berkeley, California: Apress. p. 285. ISBN 9781430210788. https://books.google.com/books?id=ktm885vGIXEC&pg=PA285.
- ↑ Uttal, Bro; Dennis, Darienne L. (August 5, 1985). "Behind the Fall of Steve Jobs". Fortune. http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/08/05/66254/index.htm.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "'Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine' to make TV Debut on CNN/U.S.". CNN. December 9, 2015. http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2015/12/09/steve-jobs-the-man-in-the-machine-to-make-tv-debut-on-cnnu-s/.
- ↑ Woodard, Johnny (September 7, 2015). "Movie review: Apple founder's dark side revealed in 'Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine'". The Island Packet. http://www.islandpacket.com/entertainment/movies-news-reviews/article34704138.html.
- ↑ Anderson, John (August 26, 2015). "Review: Alex Gibney's Documentary Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine Pulls Back the Curtain". Time (magazine). http://time.com/4010454/steve-jobs-man-in-machine-documentary-review/.
- ↑ Slotek, Jim (August 21, 2015). "'Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine' review: Documentary a brutally honest look at Apple genius". Toronto Sun. http://www.torontosun.com/2015/08/21/steve-jobs-the-man-in-the-machine-review-documentary-a-brutally-honest-look-at-apple-genius.
- ↑ Hertzfeld, Andy (March 1984). "Leave Of Absence". https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&sortOrder=Sort+&story=Leave_Of_Absence.txt.
Further reading
- "Unicode 88". Unicode Consortium. 1998-09-10. http://unicode.org/history/unicode88.pdf. "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". Computer History Museum. June 17, 1998. pp. 6–8. http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2015/09/102737965-05-01-acc.pdf. Belleville's account of the development of the Xerox Star. 2 videocassettes OCLC 42292856.
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