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A Silicon valley legend comes to the Repair Café

7/22/2013

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We had our fourth Repair Café in Palo Alto yesterday and enjoyed a surprise visit from Silicon Valley legend Dan Kottke.   Dan is known as 'Apple employee number one' and was a major contributor to the Apple I, Apple II and the first Macintosh computers.

The story goes that Sunday Walter Sedricks was walking down the street in Palo Alto with his 1980s-vintage 512k Mac  headed to the Repair Café.  Stopped by a curious Kottke who wanted to know what he was doing, Walter told him he was headed to the Repair Café to get it fixed.  Unable to help himself, Dan told him he was the guy to do it.  

So Dan went home, got his own original Mac and returned to the Repair Café to troubleshoot the other one.  Needless to say, this visitor couldn't have had a more able repairer on the job.  After all, Dan's name is embossed inside the back wall of the Mac - I know because he showed us!  Thanks for helping out, Dan!

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Taylor link
3/4/2014 07:22:39 pm

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Phil
2/17/2015 06:06:45 am

That was amazing to be there for that. He was looks for specific factory reworks, and talking about low level bugs they had to work around, and typical failure modes. He was a really down to earth guy. The Mac be bought in has a badge on it with his name, thanking him for being on the team. He literally bought in a museum piece to diagnose this guy's old Mac!

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