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The first Apple Tablet… from 1979
Way back before programs like Photoshop roamed the earth, creating pictures on computers was far from a straightforward process. To make things a little bit easier, Apple released a Graphics Tablet in 1979 which enabled users to draw on the tablet with a wired stylus pen and transfer those creations over to their computer. The […]
Continue reading...Original Apple I is up for sale on eBay for $50,000!
20. November 2009
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Apple fans tend to get nostalgic at the sight of any old Mac from the mid-80’s and early 90’s. But if you really want to go back in time, take a look at this eBay auction for an original motherboard from the Apple I – which was released all the way back in 1976 for […]
Continue reading...From the Vault: Promo video of the Twentieth Anniversary Mac
12. November 2009
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In 1997, Apple released a limited edition Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh. Sales of the machine were pretty sluggish, in large part due to its exorbitant $7,499 price tag. When Apple discontinued production about a year later, the asking price had dropped all the way down to $1,995. You might also remember that the twentieth anniversary mac […]
Continue reading...Rare photo of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates
6. November 2009
Check out this rare photo of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates discussing god knows what at Jobs’ Palo Alto home in 1991. Both Jobs and Gates were 36 at the time the photo was taken. Jobs, at the time, had already been forced out of Apple years earlier and was currently working at NeXT, which […]
Continue reading...How the iMac moniker and “Think Different” ad campaign came to be
5. November 2009
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CultofMac has a fascinating interview up with TBWA executive Ken Segall, the man partially responsible for the Think Different campaign in addition to starting the whole “i” trend that took over Apple’s product line going all the way back to the original Bondi Blue iMac. Segall describes that when Jobs returned to the helm of […]
Continue reading...From the iMac to the iPhone – video footage from every single one of Steve Jobs’ product introductions
4. November 2009
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MacLife put together this entertaining video montage of Steve Jobs announcing every single new Apple product since the original iMac all the way up to the iPhone 3GS and the recently refreshed iPod Nano.. And for you Apple nerds out there, yes, there is footage of Phil Schiller included as well. It’s interesting to take […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs return to Apple, and how Apple can survive against a swarm of Android devices
3. November 2009
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Jean-Louis Gassee has an interesting piece up analyzing the current battle for smartphone supremacy. Gassee, in case you’re unfamiliar, Gasse was a former Apple executive who occupied a number of high profile positions within the company during the 80’s. Before he was ousted by the Apple board in 1990, he was in charge of Apple’s […]
Continue reading...Lee Clow, mastermind behind Apple’s “Think Different” ad campaign steps down
30. October 2009
One of the first orders of business at Apple when Steve Jobs returned was re-hiring the famed ad agency TBWA/Chiat/Day to handle Apple’s advertising. Lee Clow, who headed up the TBWA Media Arts Lab (which served as a special division within the company that focused on all things Apple) eventually helped create the award winning “Think Different” campaign that […]
Continue reading...A 1979 profile of Steve Jobs and Apple from Time Magazine
30. October 2009
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In 1979, Time Magazine profiled a then young Apple Computer, along with its hotshot young co-founder, Steve Jobs. It’s always interesting to take a look back at where Apple came from, especially when you can gauge what the pulse on Apple was from within the pertinent time period itself. The funny thing is, in the […]
Continue reading...The Apple tablet that never was
29. October 2009
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Michael Arrington of TechCrunch has the inside scoop on a little-known Apple project called the Apple Pen Mac, an Apple tablet project whose humble beginnings stretch back all the way to 1990. The Pen Mac, Arrington writes, “was a fully functional Mac computer with a pen based touch screen.” It’s described as being smaller than […]
Continue reading...10 years ago today, Apple released OS 9
23. October 2009
On October 23, 1999, Apple released OS 9 (codename: Sonata), and I have fond memories (well, memories) of trucking over to my college bookstore and picking up a copy. I even remember that the cover of the box was green. Some of the new features introduced in OS 9 included the introduction of automatic system […]
Continue reading...Original Apple I signed by Woz fetches $18,000 on eBay
6. October 2009
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Talk about shelling out some serious cash for a piece of nostalgia, someone on eBay just purchased an original Apple I signed by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak for a whopping 18 grand. And according to the seller, he’s not even sure that it still works! The eBay product description notes: I do not know if […]
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23. November 2009
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