Tag: macintoshPage 1 of 3
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
In the Eighties a stylized little man with an overcoat and hat was etched on some early Macintosh motherboards and also appeared on some rare merchandising items. Known…
During the summer of 1983, after spending more than six months creating symbols and icons for Macintosh files and menus, designer Susan Kare‘s attention turned to an issue…
Published by Shueisha in Japan (and by Viz Media in the US) “Death Note” is a thriller manga about a high school student who discovers a supernatural notebook…
Apple introduced Mac OS 9, the last edition of the “classic” Mac OS line, in 1999 and buried it less than three years after in May 2002, at…