Apple I: The Spark That Ignited the Digital Revolution
In the dimly lit meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club in Palo Alto during the spring of 1976, world history
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“1984″ – Apple’s famous Super Bowl Spot
60 seconds that changed history: Discover the drama behind Apple’s legendary ‘1984’ Super Bowl spot, Ridley Scott’s vision, and the hammer throw that started a revolution.
Read MoreProject Purple 2 – How Apple developed the iPhone as a secret project
“The demo was not going well. Again. It was a late morning in the fall of 2006. Almost a year
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The History of the Apple Macintosh
The Apple Macintosh revolutionized the entire computer industry by the year of 1984. Steve Jobs and his ingenious Macintosh team arranged for the computer to be used by the normal “person in the street” – and not only by experts.
Read MoreHow the Founders of Apple Got Rich
The two main Apple founders – Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak – both came from humble backgrounds and were not endowed with commercial success. In order to afford the first pieces of the Apple I in 1976, they almost literally sold the shirts off their backs. Jobs invested the proceeds from the sale of his VW bus ($1,500 dollars). “Woz” parted with his beloved programmable calculator Hewlett-Packard 65 and deposited 250 dollars in the company’s treasury.
Read MorePARC scientist Larry Tesler recalls Jobs’ famous Xerox visits
Larry Tesler talks about Steve Jobs’ trips to Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center, including the one where Jobs eyed the
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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 or Fiction?
The myth entwines about a late 1979 visit to Xerox PARC by a group of Apple engineers and executives led by Steve Jobs.
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