Why the iPhone won

We are living in the age of the iPhone or, if you will, in the age of the computerphone, which – in just a handful of years –…

Who were the people with Jobs at the NeXT Cube introduction?

The group picture you can see in “Steve Jobs’ NeXT computer” was taken on the 12th of October 1988, at the NeXT Cube introduction to the media. Here’s…

Steve Jobs’ NeXT computer

Roughly thirty years ago, in October 1988, at a lavish, invitation-only gala event, Steve Jobs introduced to the press the NeXT Computer. It was a black cube-shaped workstation…

Woz on Apple not advertising the Apple II from 1980 to 1983

Sometimes memory tricks you and perception heavily differs from reality. Case in point, Apple cofounder and technical genius Steven Gary “Woz” Wozniak who in Jessica Livingston’s 2007 book…

An informal history of Macintosh “emulation”: 1988-1995 The Finder in A/UX

A/UX was Apple’s first implementation of the Unix operating system for Macintosh computers. First released in 1988, it was supposedly developed to bid for large contracts to supply…

An informal history of Macintosh “emulation”: 1984-1996 MacWorks for Lisa

While many know the history of the Star Trek project or have first-hand experience with The Blue Box (better known as Classic Environment), did you know that the…

“Can you move the CPU a couple millimeters to the left?”

Apple has always liked to show off the technology inside its products, and in the last ten to fifteen years it adopted more and more the promotional practice…

The Intel DTK: how Apple managed the Mac’s transition from PowerPC to x86

Here are some facts and numbers, all with linked sources, regarding Apple’s historic 2005-2006 transition of the Macintosh platform from PowerPC chips to Intel’s x86. First of all…

The Wallaby

The Wallaby is a small to medium-sized marsupial which lives in the islands of Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, and New Guinea. It is also the code name of…

The 2000 Power Mac G4s were not the first dual processor personal computers

In July 2000 Apple updated their Power Mac G4 line introducing with great fanfare two dual processor model, featuring G4 processors clocked at 450 and 500 MHz. In…

John Couch on Lisa’s software revolution and the perils of market research

On January 26 1983 two executives from Apple, David Larson and John Couch, presented the Apple IIe and the Apple Lisa to the Boston Computer Society. While Larson’s…

Chrisann Brennan, Lisa’s mother, worked at Apple

In “The early days of Apple Computer, Inc.” I wrote about a partial list of early Apple execs and employees that worked in Apple’s first proper office space…

The Motorola 68020

When in January 1984 Apple launched the Macintosh, the engineers at Motorola, responsible for the 8 MHz 68000 CPU at the heart of the “insanely great” computer, were…

“Revolution In The Valley”

“Revolution In The Valley” is the most authoritative text on the origins of the Macintosh: it is fundamental reading, and also a funny one. This may sound like excessive praise but the fact that Andy Hertzfeld and the other authors were all Apple employees…

The man who prototyped the Macintosh – An interview with Daniel Kottke

Daniel Kottke and Steve Jobs met at Reed College in 1972. They became friends, bonding over the seminal book on yoga and meditation “Be Here Now” and later…

Steve’s motorcycle

The development of the Macintosh started out in the early Eighties in Apple’s first offices, and after a couple of years, it picked up steam. Needing more room…

50 years of frog design

In 2019, renowned internation design firm frog (formerly frogdesign) is celebrating 50 years of work. On their website you can peruse a concise and stunning gallery with 50…

Working at Eazel – An Interview with Gene Ragan

Gene Ragan has had “the privilege of working with many of the legends of Apple”. The list of people is impressive and includes Mike Boich, Jean-Louis Gassée, Andy…