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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…
“Firing Steve Jobs” is an independent documentary about one of the most dramatic and important moments in Steve Jobs’ life: the one in which he was forced to…
2017 marks quite a few big anniversaries for Apple. While most news outlets and users celebrated the first 10 years of the iPhone, on January 3 longtime Apple…
In 2017 we not only celebrate 40 years of Apple’s rebirth as a real business in the form of a Corporation, but also: -) 40 years of the…
Stories of Apple’s 2017 begins with two big news. The first news is that after Twitter, Google+ and Tumblr (where we’ve surpassed 1700 posts), it now also has…
On the 9th of November 2011 a group of engineers and other notable people who worked with Steve Jobs talked publicly about the Apple and Pixar founder during…
Science fiction TV series Fringe featured quite a few Macs during its five seasons. Its characters have used desktop Macs, iMacs and a lot of MacBook Pros. But…
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…
In the world of programming languages, Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup is a very well-known and respected name. Stroustrup has not only been the head of AT&T Bell…
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…
If you have an old Macintosh with a PowerPC CPU and you want to browse the modern world wide web, you have only one reasonable choice: 10.4Fx, better…
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…
Back in July last year I announced the birth of a brand new resource for “quotes, memorable images and assorted tidbits from Apple’s history”: Stories of Apple on…
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…