We thought you might like to know who brought you System 6 (so you know who to praise or who to blame :-): We hope you enjoy using System 6 at least as much as we enjoyed creating it...
Management
Ralph Russo, Fern “Super Tester” Bachman, Jr.,
Lee Collings, Larry Abrams
Marketing & Evangelism
Jane Lee, Tim “When It’s Done!” Swihart,
John Santoro, Rob Barnes, Tim Golden
Support & Admin
Jennifer “Mom” Wallace, Kim Scofield, Mila Carey, Kathleen Frost,
Terri Miller
Project Management
Robin Coles, Loretta Barnard, Laura Nelson, Diana Dresbach,
Linda Francis, Mathilde Rand, Kirk Huddleston, Donna Tyacke,
Krista Reymann, Barbara Nichols
Documentation
Wade Person, Victor Lee, Robin Gold, Dale Streeter, Jay Swartz, Jenna
Woodul, Andrea Kelley
Hardware & Firmware
Mike Askins, Jim Sandler, Todd Rudin, Chris Raymond, John Arkley,
Wes Johnson
Finder
Development: Andy “FinderMan” Nicholas, Dave “M&M’s” Lyons, Ron Lichty
Quality Assurance: Brenda Knudson, Margarita Sang,
and everybody else except Greg!
Installer
Development: “Jay” Schaffer, Ron Lichty, Lee Collings
Quality Assurance: Brenda Knudson, Margarita Sang
Archiver
Development: Monte Benaresh
Quality Assurance: Steve Wesolowski, Llew Roberts,
Fern “watch me break it” Bachman, Jr.
ADU
Development: Monte Benaresh
Quality Assurance: Brenda Knudson, Llew Roberts,
Steve Wesolowski, Margarita Sang
Teach
Development: Mensch, “Jumpin’” Johnny Selhorst, Dave Lyons, Greg Branche
Quality Assurance: Bob Haven, Karen Wenzel, Margarita Sang
synthLAB
Development: Mark Cecys, Lee Collings
Quality Assurance: Braz, Lee Collings
AppleBowl
Development: Greg Branche
Quality Assurance: Lee Collings
HyperCard IIGS, v1.1
Development: Darin Acquistapace
Quality Assurance: Eric Schlosser, Jan Jubera
Media Control
Development: Dan Hitchens
Quality Assurance: Margarita Sang, Phil Marcellis
Control Panel NDA
Development: Dave “Mr. Tangent” Lyons
Quality Assurance: Margarita Sang, Brenda Knudson,
“El Presidente” Bob Haven
Control Panels
Development: Monte Benaresh, Dave “It’s a feature” Lyons,
Mike Stein, Greg Branche
Quality Assurance: Margarita Sang, Brenda Knudson, Bob Haven
Desk Accessories (NDAs)
Development: Mensch, Harry Yee, Dan Hitchens,
Dave “CursorMan” Lyons, Greg Branche
Quality Assurance: Margarita Sang, Brenda Knudson, Megan Gobble
Universal Access (CloseView, Easy Access, Video Keyboard)
Development: Don J. Brady, Dave Lyons
Quality Assurance: Margarita Sang
BASIC.System
Development: Lee Collings
Quality Assurance: Bachir Kassir
GS/OS
Development: Greg Branche
Quality Assurance: Anil Gursahani, Linda Pan, Bachir Kassir
System Loader
Development: Greg Branche
Quality Assurance: Linda Pan
File System Translators
ProDOS: Cheryl Ewy, Jack Valois, Greg Branche, Mark Day
Character: Greg Branche
HFS: Cheryl Ewy, Cary Farrier, Jack Valois, Mark Day
AppleShare: Mark Day
Pascal: Cary Farrier, Greg Branche
DOS 3.3: Monte Benaresh, Greg Branche,
Quality Assurance: Linda Pan, Bachir Kassir, Anil Gursahani
Mike Seilnacht, Alex Crovetto, Ben Beasley, Don Johnson
ProDOS 8
Development: Greg Branche
Quality Assurance: Bachir Kassir
Toolbox
Development: Mensch, Harry Yee, Dave “There’s a flag bit for that!” Lyons
Quality Assurance: Ric Forrester, John Selhorst, Bill Mitchell,
Aaron Ludtke, Mike Lagae, Greg Borovsky
Printing
Development: Ben Koning, Wes Johnson
Quality Assurance: Bob Haven
Development Tools & Utilities
Development: Jim Merritt, Dan Allen, Greg Branche
Quality Assurance: Eric Russell
Compatibility Testing
Megan Gobble, Randy Thelen, Matt Ackeret, Judi Strebel,
Helene Kassir, Debbie Shields, Brian Miyakusu
Additional Help
Matt Deatherage, Jim Luther, CK Haun, Eric Soldan, Dan Strnad,
Greg Templeman, Allan Bell, Jim Ferr, Emile Schwarz, Peter Sandys,
Rob Caplan
The following companies and/or individuals were a tremendous help during development of System 6. They took the time (and the risks) to use the not-quite-always-stable pre-final system software and let us know when something didn’t work quite right (or crashed their systems). We would like to return the favor by publicly thanking them for all of their efforts:
Roger Wagner Publishing
Ken Kashmerek, Eric Mueller, Dave Klimas
Softdisk Publishing
Bryan Pietrzak, Jay Jennings
Morgan Davis Group
Morgan Davis
Lunar Productions
Mark “Hanz” Collins, Marc “Franz” Wolfgram, Jim Maricondo
Synesis Systems
Steve Stephenson
Seven Hills Software
Dave Hecker
The Byte Works, Inc.
Mike Westerfield
Brainstorm
Louis van Proosdij
Procyon
Jawaid Bazyar
Lawrence Productions
MECC (Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium)
Craig Copley
Beagle Bros, Inc.
Mark Munz
CMS Enhancements, Inc.
Bill Stoker
ELS (Electronic Learning Systems)
Mitchell Martin
Triad Ventures, Inc.
Mike Nuzzi (Ya want our autographs again?)
Westcode Software
Rob Renstrom, Alan Bird
360 Microsystems
D. Proni
Zip Technology
David Fein
EZ-Soft
Peter Easdown
Chinook Technologies
Chris Adams
Resource Central
Tom Weishaar, Dennis Doms
Shawn Quick, Yvan Kœnig, Steve Peterson, John Gibson, Drew Vogen, Al Willis,
Lavona Rand, Marc Farnum-Rendino, George Wilde, Albert Chin, Paul Doty,
Richard Bennett, Gregory Fox
(Misspellings are entirely unintentional. Really!)