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Mac Pioneer Jef Raskin Made Computers Friendlier Jef Raskin, who helped create the Macintosh interface that made computers easier to use, died last weekend at the age of 61. Commentator Steven Levy says Raskin believed that computers should be easy for people to use and brought that belief to his work when he began the Macintosh project at Apple.

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Mac Pioneer Jef Raskin Made Computers Friendlier

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Steven Levy

Mac Pioneer Jef Raskin Made Computers Friendlier

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Jef Raskin, who helped create the Macintosh interface that made computers easier to use, died last weekend at the age of 61. Commentator Steven Levy says Raskin believed that computers should be easy for people to use and brought that belief to his work when he began the Macintosh project at Apple.