[OT] Atkinson Interview, Pt 2

[Colin Holgate]

My experience with Bill at San Jose went a bit better than yours! As soon as I saw him milling around I knew who it was. I was stood somewhere near where he was going to be sitting, and I noticed the name tag of Sioux Atkinson. I’m not even sure if I knew they were married, but I asked her if she used to be Sioux Lacy, whose name i knew from the HyperCard team (I worked at Apple in the UK during the first few years HyperCard was around, so knew some of the HyperCard team).

While we were chatting Bill arrived back, possibly slightly bothered by some guy talking to his wife! I told him that we had met about 21 years before, to which he humored me with a “oh, where might that have been?”. Fortunately it had been at his office, when I was visiting someone else on the HyperCard team, so that was a good enough answer!

If you recall, I made a jigsaw puzzle app for the competition, and several times during the next couple of days Bill was sat next to me watching me figure out the programming difficulties, which is a bit like Michael Jordan watching you shoot hoops.

I too got a photo with Bill. I had to ask Kevin to move out of the way… (ok, I made up that bit!)


> On May 2, 2016, at 1:49 AM, stephen barncard <stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 7:48 PM, <dunbarx at aol.com> wrote:
> 
>> Is it possible Bill A. is unaware of LiveCode?
> 
> 
> Impossible. Bill and his wife sat next to me at the San Jose conference.
> Although most of the time he couldn't stop talking about his iPad Keyboard
> thing he just got.
> Also I didn't know who he was and though he was just this annoying guy
> raving about his iPad when I wanted to listen to the speaker.
> 
> Then later he photobombed a photo I wanted taken with Kevin. That one was
> taken then I politely asked Bill to step aside so I could get a photo with
> Kevin alone!  I still didn't know who he was at that point. Later we got a
> photo together.
> 
> I'm not sure anyone knows about his take on Livecode these days. He seems
> to be more into photography.
> 
> Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol Ca. USA -
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