Rich Whicker

Richard E. Whicker (born may 1942) was a member of the "Twiggy" team at Apple Computer.
==Early life and education==
Whicker was born in San Francisco, California and received a B.S. in electrical engineering from the in 1966.Inside the New Pocket Calculators (PDF) by Michael J. Cook, George M. Fichter, and Richard E. Whicker, Hewlett-Packard Journal pp.8-12. 1975-11.
==Career==
Whicker settled down in Santa Clara and joined Hewlett-Packard in 1972. He became the project leader for the series of pocket calculators.
===Apple Computer===
Whicker joined Apple in 1979 as employee #219 and was part of the team that worked on the early "Twiggy" Macintosh prototype.Mac 30th Celebration by All Planet Studios, The Computer History Museum, and Macworld/iWorld. 2014-01-25.
===After Apple===
In 1995, Whicker and Bob Bishop, another former Apple engineer, collaborated on the development of the programming language for children.for Kids and for everyone else. ;) by Next Group, Programming Languages Exhibit. 2012-10-04. Whicker started a short-lived business called Touch Systems, then returned after a lengthy sabbatical to work for . He stayed mostly local to Cupertino, and at one time owned a second home in the community of , where many homes have an airplane hanger and the ability to taxi personal aircraft to the 's runaway. As of 2023, he lives with his wife Sharon in .
==References==
==See also==
*List of early Apple Computer employees
==External links==
*Macintosh creators rekindle the 'Twiggy Mac' by Dan Farber at CNET (2013-09-12)
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