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Steve Jobs’ NeXT computer

Roughly thirty years ago, in October 1988, at a lavish, invitation-only gala event, Steve Jobs introduced to the press the NeXT Computer. It was a black cube-shaped workstation…

The 2000 Power Mac G4s were not the first dual processor personal computers

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…

John Couch on Lisa’s software revolution and the perils of market research

On January 26 1983 two executives from Apple, David Larson and John Couch, presented the Apple IIe and the Apple Lisa to the Boston Computer Society. While Larson’s…

“Revolution In The Valley”

“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…

Steve’s motorcycle

The development of the Macintosh started out in the early Eighties in Apple’s first offices, and after a couple of years, it picked up steam. Needing more room…

Larry Tesler on PARC and Apple

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…

The Apple III, Steve Jobs and Jerry Manock

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…

The Apple I

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…

“Finding The Next Steve Jobs”

“Finding The Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent” Author: Nolan Bushnell and Gene Stone Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ohter info: 256 pages; also available…

Mister Macintosh

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…

The first fonts of the Macintosh

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…

Mac OS 9: still alive and kicking after 15 years

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…

One More Thing

The G4 Cube, Airport technology, the iMac G4, the 12″ PowerBook, iTunes for Windows, the G5, the iPod mini, Safari for Windows, the first MacBook Pro, the iPod…

A chat with Jay Elliot

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,…

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Chris Espinosa on Jobs leaving Apple again

Mr. Espinosa started out at Apple as employee number 8 and has been working on computers and products “for the rest of us” since the late Seventies, beginning…

A history of innovation – An interview with Andy Hertzfeld

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…

On Apple Multimedia – An Interview with Dan Crow (part two)

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…