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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 –…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
In “The 88110 CPU and the RISC workstations that never were” we’ve related the story of how in the early 90s NeXT had supposedly developed a RISC-based prototype…
Twenty five years ago, in May 1992, at the CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Chicago, Apple CEO John Sculley previewed Newton, a groundbreaking pen-based “personal digital assistant” technology….
The two projects, which aimed to bring RISC technology to the Macintosh, had totally different approaches and resources. Here are some of the main points which put them…
At the beginning of the Nineties both Apple and NeXT were planning to unveil new RISC machines, powered by the Motorola 88110 CPU. At that point the Motorola…
Developed to quickly process data-heavy tasks, run UNIX and… to satisfy a government contract. Released in March 1990, the Mac IIfx at the time was the fastest and…
Apple’s first computer designed for the enterprise market, the first not engineered by Steve Wozniak. And Infinite Loop’s first major failure The Apple III went down as a…
This summer I noticed a question on Quora, asking “What are the most unforgettable old Mac computers?” While most of the answers (predictably) waxed poetic about mainstays such…
40 years ago, on July 29th, 1975, Steve Wozniak booted up for the first time the computer he designed and built on his own. At the beginning of…
In late 1984 the Macintosh’s Apple’s market share was just 15% and Steve Jobs, John Sculley and their staff were running various scenarios to gain sales without losing…