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The birth of the iPod Division

At the end of May 2004, Apple’s organization underwent a major shakeup. Three years after the introduction of its digital player, the Cupertino company created a new iPod…

The smallest Quadra

The Macintosh Quadra 605 was the smallest and lowest-model from the high profile professional lineup when Apple still used 68k CPUs from Motorola. Unlike the much bigger 700,…

The Apple IIsi

Codenamed “Centossa”, the Apple IIsi was the swan song of the Apple II line: dating back to the first half of 1988 and envisioned as an heir of…

Meet the Apple 32 SuperMicros

In the original press release from January 1984 one could read that the Macintosh, along with three powerful new Lisa 2 computers, forms the basis of the Apple…

Happy birthday, Macintosh!

The motherboard pictured was gently provided by Maurizio Buso

Ten years ago: the Power Macintosh G3 Blue & White

Jan. 5, 1999 was also the date on which Apple introduced the new Power Macintosh G3, a new Macintosh line which, according to Steve Jobs, was meant to…

Captain Crunch on Apple – An interview with John Draper

Nota: l’intervista è disponibile anche in una versione tradotta in italiano su Storie di Apple.it At the MOCA2008 “hacker camp” in Italy I had the pleasure to meet…

Discs, filesystems and Macs – Interview with Drew Thaler

Best known for a recent series of posts on Sun’s ZFS filesystems, Drew Thaler has worked on many projects at Infinite Loop in the last decade. One of…

Slackintosh reborn – An Interview with Adrian Ulrich

Slackintosh was a little-known PPC port of Slackware Linux which after some years of development was put on indefinite hiatus. Adrian Ulrich has recently restarted the project and…