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Apple IIc commercial from 1984 [Video]
An old Apple IIc commercial from 1984. The Apple IIc was the fourth iteration of the revolutionary Apple II and represented Apple’s first attempt to create a truly portable computer. How much did it weigh? 7.5 lbs. The Apple IIc was released in April of ’84, three months after Steve Jobs introduced the Macintosh and […]
Continue reading...Original Apple Lisa 1 sells for $15,000 on eBay
22. December 2010
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Earlier this week, an original and purportedly functioning Apple Lisa I computer went up on eBay. There’s no way to tell if the winning bid is legit or not, but the screenshot below indicates that someone did, in fact, it was worth it to shell out $15,000 for this piece of Apple and computing history. […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs’ 1979 Business Card [Photo]
6. December 2010
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What you’re looking at below is a bona fide photo of Steve Jobs’ business card from 1979. I wonder what the good folks from American Psycho would think of it. A few observations: 1. Apparently he went by Steven back in the day 2. An obvious statement, but the lack of an email address is […]
Continue reading...The story behind Steve Jobs’ 1985 resignation from Apple
21. November 2010
“Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to change the world?” So said a young Steve Jobs to Pepsi CEO John Sculley in 1983 in an effort to convince the then cola executive to take on CEO duties at Apple. At the time, Sculley was […]
Continue reading...Original Apple I computer expected to fetch as much as $241,000 at upcoming auction
12. November 2010
There’s Apple memorabilia and then there’s THIS. While Apple routinely sells millions of computers each and every quarter, the personal computing landscape was a lot different back in 1976. That it so say non-existant. Apple changed all that when they introduced the Apple II and brought computing to the masses, but the Apple I is […]
Continue reading...Bloomberg’s 50-minute video profile of Steve Jobs now available online
17. October 2010
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Bloomberg has posted online its 50-minute Game Changers video profile of Steve Jobs. It features fascinating interviews with a number of Apple personalties such as Steve Wozniak and former CEO John Sculley. It’s definitely worth checking out on a lazy Sunday, Part I Part II Part III Part IV
Continue reading...Apple hands over MacPaint source code to the Computer History Museum
20. July 2010
Apple has handed over the source code to MacPaint, the first drawing program for the Mac, over to the Computer History Museum. Released in 1984 and coded by Bill Atkinson, MacPaint pioneered many features that would eventually become standard on nearly every graphics editor. Some of these features include the lasso tool for selecting irregular shaped areas and […]
Continue reading...“I lovingly leave Apple in your care. Good luck, I’ll be cheering from the sidelines.”
11. July 2010
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So said former Apple CEO Gil Amelio in his resignation letter sent to Apple employees on July 9, 1997. Since moving on from Apple 13 years ago, Amelio now works as a venture capitalist at Sienna Ventures. To Apple employees everywhere, Today, Apple announced my resignation as chairman and CEO of Apple Computer, effective immediately. […]
Continue reading...Ron Wayne, the third and forgotten co-founder of Apple
29. June 2010
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Contrary to popular belief, there were actually three Apple co-founders of Apple Computer. While everyone’s heard of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, not everyone is familiar with Ron Wayne. Wayne, who is now 76, initially met Steve Jobs while they were both employed by Atari. When Jobs and Wozniak up and decided to create Apple […]
Continue reading...WWDC Flashback – John Hodgman impersonates Steve Jobs, makes fun of Microsoft
4. June 2010
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Steve Jobs is no stranger to “mixing it up” and taking a few well-timed jabs at Microsoft, and no where is this more apparent than at WWDC. With Apple’s world wide developers conference just days away, here’s a look back at the opening of Steve Jobs’ keynote from WWDC 2007, starring the hilarious John Hodgman […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs explains that the iPhone actually began as a tablet project
1. June 2010
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As expected, Steve Jobs’ interview at Tuesday’s All Things D conference was an in-depth and rich affair that touched on a number of interesting topics. While we’ll have more in-depth coverage later on, one particularly interesting exchange centered on how the iPhone came to be, and how it actually sprung up from work on developing […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs to take the stage at D8 Conference tomorrow night with Kara Swisher
31. May 2010
Forget WWDC for a moment, because Steve Jobs is set to appear onstage at the D8 conference tomorrow night for an interview with Kara Swisher of All Things D. At previous All Things Digital conferences attended by Jobs, Apple’s stalwart leader talked openly about almost anything asked by Walt Mossberg, who curiously won’t be part of the […]
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31. December 2010
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