History of Apple's Pascal Poster

Lucas Wagner writes "Circa 1979, a strange poster was over nearly every programmer at Apple Computer. The "Syntax Poster" adorned offices, cubes, and even dealers. It was created by Jef Raskin and Steve Jobs. It was half art, half code. My uncle was a printer at the time and gave me one of them, thankfully, because they don't exist anymore. In researching the poster's origins, Raskin told me its history. I found it to be so interesting that, with his permission, I thought it would be a good article for fans of Apple trivia."

Comments

Re:Thank Niklaus for a simple languate

[Rouxfus]

The syntax diagrams depicted in the poster, without all the fancy coloring were part of Niklaus Wirth's original "PASCAL - User Manual and Report" (with Kathy Jensen), published by Springer-Verlag in 1974.

Re:THINK poster

[Fletch]

Does anyone know the story behind Apple's THINK (not think different) poster?

This is the first I've heard of an Apple THINK poster, but it's probably a play on the slogan/signs IBM had around it's offices since ~1915.