Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh
Apple is now (2017) the most valuable company in the world. But 20 years ago it looked like the company was about to completely implode. Nevertheless Apple was celebrating it’s …
Category: Mac History
Scrollbar History – UI design is difficult
Some interesting UI design history from Jack Wellborn at Worms and Viruses: While watching the video, I couldn’t help but notice two snippets at the 7:36 mark from 1982 …
Happy Birthday, Mac
Steve Jobs had assembled a dream team of genius programmers and engineers, whom he urged like a cult leader with flattery and verbal attacks to continually new heights. But …
Steve Jobs acts as Franklin D. Roosevelt – Bizarre internal Apple promo (1984)
Apple's marketing history may seem like a continual streak of genius advertising, but even the mighty gadget company has suffered a few stumbles. Take this rarely seen sequel to …
Did Steve Jobs steal everything from Xerox PARC?
It is claimed again and again that in the course of the Macintosh’s development, Apple just resorted to the ideas the research laboratory Xerox PARC had hatched before. Fact …