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One of My All-Time Favorite Tech Legends

“Retreating to his garage, he cut a block of wood to fit his shirt pocket. Then he carried it around for months, pretending it was a computer. Was he free for lunch on Wednesday? Hawkins would haul out the block and tap on it as if he were checking his schedule. If he needed a phone number, he would pretend to look it up on the wood. Occasionally he would try out different design faces with various button configurations, using paper printouts glued to the block.” – Alberto Savaia, Pretotype It

Author Garrick van BurenPosted on March 16, 2012Format QuoteCategories Uncategorized

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