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Steve Jobs riding a 1966 BMW motorcycle
In a pretty rare and none-too-often seen photograph from 1982, Steve Jobs can be seen cruising along on a 1966 BMW motorcycle. The photo originally ran in a 1982 National Geographic article titled “High Tech, High Risk, and High Life in Silicon Valley”. In the article, Jobs is quoted as wishing that the Apple computer […]
Continue reading...The Secret Origins of Windows 1.0
12. March 2010
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Technologizer has a fasctinating look at the development of Windows 1.0 with Tandy Trower, the man who served as the Windows 1.0 product manager. Regarding the inclusion, and inspiration, for the mini-apps that fast became a standard on Windows PCs: When the Macintosh was announced, I noted that Apple bundled a small set of applications, […]
Continue reading...The first songs ever played on an iPod
10. February 2010
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Steve Jobs announced the first iPod on October 23, 2001. Though famously lampooned at first, the iPod went on to become Apple’s most iconic product. So on a slow news day, we thought we’d go back and look at the first songs ever played on an iPod in public. The first song demoed by Steve […]
Continue reading...How Steve Wozniak brought color to the personal computer [Video]
6. February 2010
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With Apple now over 30 years old, it’s sometimes easy to forget that they were on the vanguard of technological innovation years before the Mac came to be, and decades before the iPod and iPhone took over the world. The Apple II, which was introduced at the West Coast Computer Faire in 1977, helped launch […]
Continue reading...What people said about the iPod when it was first announced
3. February 2010
Given the perplexing backlash and seeming hatred being directed at the iPad, we thought it’d be somewhat instructive to go back in time and take a look at what some people were saying about the iPod when Steve Jobs first announced Apple’s first MP3 player back in October, 2001. When first released, the original iPod […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs sporting the original popped collar
29. December 2009
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Talk about contrasting styles. Woz is smiling at the camera while wearing an ID badge and an Apple belt buckle of all things. Steve Jobs, meanwhile, looks serious but is open to party, as evidenced by his popped collar. Together, they’re holding an Apple I motherboard.
Continue reading...1987 Time Capsule Video from Apple is… interesting
22. December 2009
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Check out this 1987 produced video from Apple which attempts to imagine what things will be like in 1997. To be honest, it’s a strange production with some pretty lame attempts at humor, but you can catch appearances by former Apple CEO John Sculley, former Apple CEO and President Michael Spindler, and a noticeably thinner […]
Continue reading...When Steve Wozniak put together a US Music Festival
21. December 2009
Check out this photo of Steve Wozniak hangin’ out with Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth at the 1983 US Festival in California, a badass music festival which attracted hundreds of thousands of music fans and was sponsored and funded by Woz himself. Yep, you read that correctly – Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak actually put […]
Continue reading...Photos of a young Steve Jobs
15. December 2009
Pictured below is a young Steve Jobs at age 14, standing front row and center. The photo was taken in 1969 and is of the Electronics Club at Homestead High School in Cupertino, California. And as luck would have it, it’s the same high school fellow Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak graduated from one year earlier. […]
Continue reading...Blast from the Past: A look back at Apple’s DOS Compatibility Cards
9. December 2009
Apple’s DOS Compatibility Card is certainly a blast from the past, and you might even call it the first version of Boot Camp! Way back in the day, you know when people actually used floppy discs, transferring data between PC’s and Mac’s was a chore. And to that end, Apple released a DOS compatibility card in […]
Continue reading...How Steve Wozniak invented the Personal Computer [Video]
1. December 2009
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Check out this extremely enthusiastic and informative video of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak discussing how he developed the Apple I and the Apple II. Woz goes into interesting detail regarding his thought process at the time and how he and Steve Jobs up and decided to create Apple Computer. What’s also interesting is that the […]
Continue reading...Photo Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak circa 1979
27. November 2009
A throwback photo from 1979 featuring a mustachioed Steve Jobs with a clean-cut and beardless Steve Wozniak on an Apple II. If there were ever a photo that highlighted the difference in personality, at least bac then, between Jobs and Woz, then this is it. Jobs is casually hovering around with shaggy hair, a mustache, […]
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19. March 2010
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