Tag Archive | "Apple History"
The Secret Origins of Windows 1.0
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, which included [...]
Continue reading...How Steve Wozniak brought color to the personal computer [Video]
Saturday, February 6, 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
Wednesday, February 3, 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
Tuesday, December 29, 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
Tuesday, December 22, 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
Monday, December 21, 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
Tuesday, December 15, 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
Wednesday, December 9, 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...Watch MacHeads documentary for free online
Thursday, December 3, 2009
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MacHeads is an entertaining and engrossing documentary about Apple’s loyal and rabid fanbase. The film’s producers summarize the project thusly: In 1985, Apple aired the commercial Macintosh the Computer for the Rest of Us offering the general public the possibility of using computers in their homes for the first time. MacHEADS follows the story of the [...]
Continue reading...How Steve Wozniak invented the Personal Computer [Video]
Tuesday, December 1, 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 Apple [...]
Continue reading...Photo Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak circa 1979
Friday, November 27, 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, [...]
Continue reading...The first Apple Tablet… from 1979
Monday, November 23, 2009
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 [...]
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Friday, March 12, 2010
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