The summer of 1982 was in full swing, and the team responsible for developing the Mac was growing happily. Proit had to move from its original location in Texaco Towers to the main part of the company's campus at that time Apple on Bandley Drive. “We moved to Bandley 4 – a medium-sized building across the street from the mainancelari Applu,” recalls Andy Herzfeld, a programmer, inventor, and IT technician who was a prominent member of the original Macintosh development team, on the Folklore website.
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One of the things he liked about the team's new headquarters, he said, was the proximity to the software team, which was located near the parking lot in the back of the building. Herzfeld recalls how often everyone would go outside to play basketball or just walk around the building. It worked great for a few months, when management decided to install an alarm system in the team headquarters, which already had employeesancand they couldn't leave the building as they wanted. "Before half past five alarm "They didn't turn it on, but that was no use to me because I usually didn't leave for price until around seven in the evening and then usually came back to work for a few more hours," Herzfeld recalls. If anyone present forgot to alarm and went through the door, the device made a very unpleasant sound and a member of security was called to deactivate it, which often took more than ten minutes.
The members of the respective teams alarm complained to management in vain. Andy Herzfeld asked the head of security to alarm didn't turn it on before midnight, and even offered to activate it himself after the last person left the building, but his pleas went unanswered. One day he came to visit AppBud Tribble from Seattle. The teams were showing him their latest work. One day, Tribble came to the software team's headquarters late in the afternoon, where he also met with Billem Atkinsonewith Steve Jobs. A few team members ran out of the building to get the hard drive, which was located in another part of the campus. But it was after 5:30, so it was fully loaded. alarm, and an unbearable sound filled every corner of the room. “Does anyone have any idea how to turn this thing off?” Jobs shouted angrily from the presence. According to him, Herzfeld sensed the perfect opportunity to finally destroy alarmand asked Jobs if they had alarm destroy it to silence him. “Do whatever you want, I don’t care if you break the thing,” Jobs replied, covering his ears with his hands, “just stop the damn thing!”
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Herzfeld and Burc Horne headed to the hardware department, grabbing whatever tools they could get their hands on. "I had a hammer and a screwdriver, and I started jamming the screwdriver into the center alarm"Uh," Herzfeld recalls. The screwdriver went right through the device, but it didn't shut it down. Bruce joined in, turned the screwdriver, and alarm broke into several pieces that hit the ground. "A horrible sound toone"He stopped," Herzfeld says. But an angry member of the security service appeared on the scene: "Who's in charge here? You better show me your badge!" he shouted. At that, the Steve Jobs and showed him his badge. “I take responsibility for this,” he told him. The guard examined Jobs’ badge carefully and several times, shrugged, picked up the pieces of the destroyed alarmua left without a word. "We were glad to have him." alarm gone, but exactly a week later a new one appeared in its place, which lasted until we moved to Bandley 3,” Herzfeld concludes.
