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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…