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 | |
|---|---|
| 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 128; 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
- 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.
- Hiltzik, Michael A. (June 22, 1998). "Fans Celebrate Fallen Xerox Star". Los Angeles Times.
- Baer, Drake (January 16, 2015). "This Bill Gates Quote Summarizes What The Tech World Thought Of Steve Jobs". Business Insider.
- "Canon, Lone Wolf". Wired. October 1, 1994.
- Livingston, Jessica (2008). "Charles Geschke, Cofounder, Adobe Systems". Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days. Berkeley, California: Apress. p. 285. ISBN 9781430210788.
- Uttal, Bro; Dennis, Darienne L. (August 5, 1985). "Behind the Fall of Steve Jobs". Fortune.
- "'Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine' to make TV Debut on CNN/U.S." CNN Press Room. CNN. December 9, 2015.
- Woodard, Johnny (September 7, 2015). "Movie review: Apple founder's dark side revealed in 'Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine'". The Island Packet (with video of Belleville speaking).
- Anderson, John (August 26, 2015). "Review: Alex Gibney's Documentary Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine Pulls Back the Curtain". Time.
- Slotek, Jim (August 21, 2015). "'Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine' review: Documentary a brutally honest look at Apple genius". Toronto Sun.
- Hertzfeld, Andy (March 1984). "Leave Of Absence".
Further reading
- Becker, Joseph D. (1998-09-10) [1988-08-29]. "Unicode 88" (PDF). unicode.org (10th anniversary reprint ed.). Unicode Consortium. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-11-25. Retrieved 2016-10-25.
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" (PDF) (transcript). Computer History Museum. June 17, 1998. pp. 6–8. Belleville's account of the development of the Xerox Star. 2 videocassettes OCLC 42292856.