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I wanted to share this as I have just finished interviewing former Apple senior engineer Ron Johnston (ex Lisa, Spartacus and A/UX).

After a long chat he said, 'I have one more story'.

We have all probably heard this story - from a distance, but as they say - Ron was there.

thanks for the positive vibes yann, that's a nice touch

thanks for the positive vibes scriptweaver

thanks darkwater

per: the scans, the patent isn't for TIFF and the articles misspell his name. I think that the Paul Brainerd (Aldus cofounder) interview with the Computer History Museum, when he names Stephen, will be sufficient for Wiki.

thanks for the feedback

i do like the 'lighting up the lamps'

hi kilibe,

thanks for your interest.

i have concentrated on apple in the era when jobs isn't there to cancel or squash ideas and invention. many folks, not unlike stephen, come out of the woodwork. and i have slowly connected with them.

last week i documented (through interviews) tom gilley's work on apple's first hand-held pen-driven tablet called scribe. this included innovation and invention of suppressing electro mmagnetic interference, removng contemporary tech's weight, stretching battery output and so forth - as well as writing a slimmed down version of the mac/os and handwriting recognition rather than writing one completely from scratch (which was what newton/dylan) were doing.

so there's a lot of conversations to document.

Carlsen's TIFF extensibility was what Milne and Lentczner used as a guiding principal when building AIFF, as did Leak on QuickTime years later.

thanks daniel. i swapped a few emails with stephen's ex-wife and they melted my heart. i asked if she was OK with sharing this story of a humble genius with the wider world and she said, yes.

thanks isoprophlex for the acknowledgment. so many of the folks that i have interviewed, contributed so much to making tech or a product better for all. especially at or around apple. they receieved none of the credit that the 'names' got. ;-) you know who i mean.

well said svat. without laboring the point, "once you know - you know". until then it is like trying to find a needle in a haystack - and some people do not want to be found.

thank you sethx

thank you

Thanks oisin, it's a beautiful story and his ex-wife gave me permission to share.

my kids made the avatar so...sorry if it triggers

thanks for the response burnto

i crossed my fingers for the first 24 hours but i now think admins and mod, to their credit, understand it's the truth.

i've interviewed 100 folks in this space, in part because they are older than us.

i didn't want to push the book too hard, given the tone of the story. thanks for the feedback.

Somebody subscribed to my blog with ref to hacker news so i just poked my head in :-)

thanks gnerd

thanks righthand, i guess it was just curiosity that led me down the path. most people do give a sh## but i hear you. i also had the time to search, as i wasn't super busy with work.

hi andre, thanks for the feedback. there is a url link within the article to the book which uses a new self publishing method called books.by

thanks upvoter

thanks adam