Jef Raskin was born on March 9, 1943, in New York, USA.

Jef Raskin

Steve Jobs

The Macintosh computer was created by a team of engineers and designers at Apple led by Jef Raskin in the late 1970s. When Steve Jobs joined the Macintosh project in the early 1980s he and Raskin disagreed about the design of the Macintosh and Raskin left Apple to start his own company.

Apple employee Jef Raskin is responsible for coining the machine after his favorite variety of apple, smartly tying the whole fruit theme together.