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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 –…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Are you looking for the best resource for technical data on both historic and new Apple products? The free Mactracker software for Mac and iOS is the answer…
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…
Introduced in March 1987, the Macintosh II was the ultimate Mac for professionals. Based on the new 68020 processor, it was the first 32-bit Mac (although it was…
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 June 2004 Grady Booch interviewed Bill Atkinson and Andy Hertzfeld for the Computer History Museum. His last question for the creators of the Macintosh was about how…
Introduced on the stage by Steve Jobs during the May 1999 WWDC Keynote, the “Mac OS Anthology” was a collection of many Mac OS operating systems to aid…
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…