If you ever get the chance to hear Pixar’s Michael B. Johnson speak, you should leap at the chance. Known to the Twitterverse as @drwave, Michael is an incredibly entertaining speaker and, it turns out, a terrific interviewer.
In addition to his role supervising the Tools Story/Editorial team at Pixar, Wave is on the Board of the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco. The video below, filmed at the Cartoon Art Museum, is a fascinating interview Michael did with three people who witnessed the early days of NeXT firsthand: Doug Menuez, Peter Graffagnino, and Don Melton.
Lots of anecdotes including Steve Jobs, a bit of early Apple, and lots of the birth of various technologies that came together at NeXT.
Enjoy.
That was excellent. I remember the last guy’s story in The Loop Magazine. Great to hear him talk too. What an exciting time to be in tech. One time NeXT tried to recruit me when I called them for an owner’s manual for NeXTStep for Intel. It was then I realized how desperate they were for change. 🙂
Hell of a set of interviews. I’m no dev, so I have to gauge whether it’s worth sitting through code-talk I barely understand for the anecdotes that require it. This was worth it.