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Who were the people with Jobs at the NeXT Cube introduction?

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…

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…

50 years of frog design

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…

The 88110 CPU and the RISC workstations that never were

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…

Documenting the Macintosh – An interview with Caroline Rose

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…

A Darwinian opening

On the 16th of March 1999 Apple announced Darwin, the open source core of Mac OS X. While the product was actually released more than a year after,…

Ten years ago: here comes Mac OS X Server

On Jan. 5, 1999, during the Macworld Expo, Apple announced Mac OS X Server as its’ new server operating system offering, which was declared to combine “the proven…

Apple’s software lineup in 2001

In 2001 Apple was still at the beginning of its slow transition from the Mac OS 9 era into the X one and also building up what would…