11 Facts About Mitchell Waite

Mitchell Waite is an American computer programmer, author and publisher of programming books and the mobile app iBird.

Mitchell Waite's career began in 1977 when he met Steve Jobs at the Home Brew Computer Club at Stanford University.

Jobs introduced the Apple I to the group and Mitchell Waite was one of the first to purchase the single board personal computer at the Byte Shop in San Rafael.

Jobs found out about an elaborate weather station Mitchell Waite had running on his houseboat in Greenbrae, California and attached to the Apple I, and invited himself up to see it.

Mitchell Waite met Jobs at the new offices of Apple Computer.

Mitchell Waite accepted and asked if he could come in later in the morning since he lived in Marin county.

Mitchell Waite balked, and told Jobs he could not live in Cupertino's asphalt jungle.

Mitchell Waite told Jobs he felt he would be successful on his own one day as a writer or publisher but would still love to do something else to help Apple.

Mitchell Waite enlisted his old College of Marin professors to help him write books about programming languages and soon has a reputation as one of the major shakers in the burgeoning computer book industry.

Mitchell Waite established Mitch Waite Group at 1977, which has published more than 130 titles in the computer programming field.

Mitchell Waite created the website WhatBird and later developed iBird, a bird field guide app for iOS and Android.