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Jerry York and Apple

Jerome B. York became part of Apple’s board of directors in August of 1997 and remained in this role for almost thirteen years until his death, in March…

Larry, John, Steve, and Bruce

If you click on the About menu item under System 6, on the right you can see a list of names: Larry, John, Steve, and Bruce. These are…

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 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…

The people behind the Macintosh

“The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest…

Wendy and Lisa and the Macs

The Macintosh is an important tool for musicians Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman of Prince fame. In the last years the artistic duo has been hard at work…

CLImax: yet another shell before Mac OS X

There are many misconceptions about the Macintosh before the arrival of Mac OS X. One of them is the absence of a shell, a command-line interface. Although it…

Captain Crunch on Apple – original audio recording available

Just a short update to let you know there is also an unedited audio recording of the chat with Mr. Draper on which the “Captain Crunch on Apple…

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…

Peter Hoddie, QuickTime architect

Currently CEO of Generic Media Peter Hoddie is one of the many important and talented developers in Apple history and also a key to its prominent position in…

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…