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THE MACINTOSH PROJECT

DOCUMENT 0 VERSION 11

TITLE: CATALOG TO MACINTOSH DOCUM[NTS

AUTHOR: JEF RASKIN

DATE: 28 Sep-13 Feb 80
M 0.11 CATALOG*
A chronologically arranged annotated listing of all Macintosh
documents. The very document that you are reading. If there is
no asterisk aiter a document title, that document is either
obsolete or is especially technical.

M 1.4 INTRODUCTION AND PRELIMINARY CONVENTIONS
The conventions for documents, their distribution and catalogine.

tI 2.9 OVERVIEW OF PRELININARY AREAS OF CONCERN*
A lis~, slightly a~notated, of the various questions that must be
answered in designing Macintosh. It is rather comprehensive.

~1 3.5 THE APPLE COMPUTER NETWORK*
Justification of and preliminary thoughts on a network. An appendix
lists some names and addresses of networks.

M 4. 1 THOUGHTS ON ANNIE
An old memo, from May '79, with some early thoughts on what was
to b~come the ~~cintosh project. ~ccentric use of Enelish.

M 5.1 PRELIMINARY COST INVESTIGATION*
A brief rundown on the cost of the major electonic and mechanical
components of Macintosh. The $500 selling price is shown to be
a difficult mark to reach.

M 6.2 GENERAL CRITERIA
An expansion of the general criteria l;sted in M 2.B, defining the
major goals of the project.

M 7.7 A MODEL OF MEMORY VS DISK CHOICES
A d~scription of the design of a mathematical model. This is the
documentation for M 9 and MID.

M B.l PERSONAL AIMS
My aims in doing the Macintosh project.

M 9.6 PASCAL MODEL OF MEMORY VS DISK CHOICES
A non-interactive program that sweeps through various
document and memory sizes. Superceded by MID.

M 10.3 INTERACTIVE PASCAL HODEL OF MEMORY VS DISK CHOICES
An interactive model that allows you to easily vary parameters