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In 1990, during the development of the new Macintosh operating system software, System 7, Apple Computers was being sued by Beatles’ Apple Corps. The two Apples had an…
When, at the end of August 2004, Apple introduced the new iMac G5, Philip Schiller, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing, stated that “A lot of people…
The world of retrocomputing (or computing history, if you wish) and modern tech products seldom meet. I have been asked a few times to haw^^advertise new products for…
At the end of 1988 Steve Schaffran, founder and Chief Operating Officer of Barneyscan, a California start-up that had just introduced one of the first high-quality 24-bit color film…
In July 1993 Apple introduced two very special Macintosh models, the Centris 660AV and the Quadra 840AV. Although seemingly belonging to different product lines and featuring radically different…
On the 14th of September, 1992 Apple Computer introduced a new family of Macintosh computers targeting the consumer marketplace. Initially available only in the U.S., the new series…
Jay Elliot has been part of Apple during its first incredible growth, in the early Eighties. He met Steve Jobs in a restaurant and was offered a job,…
Bruce Horn’s career started at the Parc where, as a student, he helped in the development of Smalltalk-based various projects. In 1981 he started working for Apple where,…
Bill Fernandez describes himself as an “User Interface Architect” but he is much, much more. Being one of the first employees he has contributed immensely to Apple’s growth…
Legendary developer, hacker, but also talented storyteller, Andy Hertzfeld was a key member of the Macintosh team throughout the 80s. Together with Bill Atkinson he created the software…
Caroline Rose joined the Mac Team at Apple in June 1982. Although she didn’t appear in any official pictures, interviews or promotional material of the time, her pivotal…
This is the second part of Stories of Apple’ interview with Dan Crow, who was originally hired by Apple to work on AMT (Apple Media Tool) but stayed…
Some years ago I came by two packaged and unopened copies of a little known software sold by Apple. Called Apple Media Tool, it was a competitor to…
There is a kinship between Stories of Apple and Riccardo Mori‘s System Folder blog. We both share a mix of love and curiosity for the history of Apple…
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 most touted feature of Mac OS 9 was the new Sherlock 2 but there were lots of other new features, mostly related to the development and coming…
On October 22, 1999 Apple launched Mac OS 9, its major new release of the Macintosh operating system. The last boxed edition of the “classic” Mac OS line…