[hellojohnbuck]

Thanks oisin, it's a beautiful story and his ex-wife gave me permission to share.

[daniel_reetz]

A huge number of us labor behind the scenes with no public acknowledgment or credit. For each idea brought to life we might hope for -at most- an epitaph carved in expired patent claims.

This story is touching.

[hellojohnbuck]

thanks daniel. i swapped a few emails with stephen's ex-wife and they melted my heart. i asked if she was OK with sharing this story of a humble genius with the wider world and she said, yes.

[isoprophlex]

It is, indeed. Thanks for writing that up, it touched me.

And thanks for being the historian of our culture-that-eschews culture (or so it seems to me sometimes, that tech tries to exist in a perennial present without acknowledging it's roots and history)

[hellojohnbuck]

thanks isoprophlex for the acknowledgment. so many of the folks that i have interviewed, contributed so much to making tech or a product better for all. especially at or around apple. they receieved none of the credit that the 'names' got. ;-) you know who i mean.

[btreecat]

Thank you both!