We are living in the age of the iPhone or, if you will, in the age of the computerphone, which – in just a handful of years –…
The group picture you can see in “Steve Jobs’ NeXT computer” was taken on the 12th of October 1988, at the NeXT Cube introduction to the media. Here’s…
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…
Sometimes memory tricks you and perception heavily differs from reality. Case in point, Apple cofounder and technical genius Steven Gary “Woz” Wozniak who in Jessica Livingston’s 2007 book…
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…
Apple has always liked to show off the technology inside its products, and in the last ten to fifteen years it adopted more and more the promotional practice…
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…
The Wallaby is a small to medium-sized marsupial which lives in the islands of Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, and New Guinea. It is also the code name of…
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…
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…
In “The early days of Apple Computer, Inc.” I wrote about a partial list of early Apple execs and employees that worked in Apple’s first proper office space…
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…
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…
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…
Gene Ragan has had “the privilege of working with many of the legends of Apple”. The list of people is impressive and includes Mike Boich, Jean-Louis Gassée, Andy…