From YouTube.com, this clip from The History Channel's 'Lost and Found' features a brief history of Apple Computer, and includes commentary from Woz!



A Little History of Apple

Today we return to the magical Wayback Machine at Archive.org to retrieve another lost nugget. This 1998 article by John Rizzo, discussing the reasons why the "Innovative new OS looks to the future but isn't quite ready for the present", is originally from Creative Mac.
It begins:
"New versions of the Mac OS are always my favorite Apple products. As cool as new Mac models may be, the operating system is where you spend your time. Besides, most of us can afford the latest and greatest Mac OS, even if we can only dream of owning the newest Power Book or Power Mac."

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Time for Mac OS 8.5?

For your Friday, we offer this two-part Woz interview from YouTube.com.

Part 1


Part 2

Today we return to the informative "This Week in Apple History" series at The Mac Observer. The March 21 - 31 entry in the series by Owen Linzmayer & Bryan Chaffin is entitled, "Xerox Suit, Oracle Takeover & Jesse Jackson on Apple".

March 21 - 31: Xerox Suit, Oracle Takeover & Jesse Jackson on Apple

Another bit of Apple history from YouTube.com.
"In 1988, Apple was eager to show off the graphics power of its Macintosh II line of computers. Using a program called Super3D, a group of talented artists produced 'Pencil Test,' an animated short created entirely on the Macintosh. Keep in mind that QuickTime did not exist in 1988; the movie was output frame by frame to an imagesetter, and then recorded to film."



Pencil Test

Today we return to the magical Wayback Machine at Archive.org to retrieve another lost nugget. This 1997 article by John Rizzo, discussing the Macworld Expo delivering a new board of directors, a Microsoft alliance, and hot new products, is originally from Creative Mac.
It begins:
"Steve Jobs has scared me before, but never more than when he announced Oracle CEO Larry Ellison--who recently threatened a hostile takeover of Apple--would be joining Apple's board of directors."

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The New Apple

Today we return to the informative "This Week in Apple History" series at The Mac Observer. The March 14-20 entry in the series by Owen Linzmayer & Bryan Chaffin is entitled, "Lots Of Mac History, 1 Million Macs, "Wicked Fast," Tell-All Book, Darwin".

March 14 - 20: Lots Of Mac History, 1 Million Macs, "Wicked Fast," Tell-All Book, Darwin

A tale at Folklore.org by Andy Hertzfeld. This time the topic is the famous signing of the inside if the Macintosh case by the Mac team. It begins:
"The component of the Macintosh hardware that had the longest lead time was the hard tool that molded its distinctive plastic case. After tweaking the case design for more than six months and building a small production run of 50 units with a soft-tooled case, the final design was ready to go out for hard tooling toward the end of February 1982, so we could meet the ship date that we were aiming for at the time, which was January 1983."

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Signing Party

We've featured the legendary Knowledge Navigator video on VAN in the past, but YouTube.com makes it so easy to take another look! Hey - is that Bill Nye The Science Guy? From the YouTube intro:
"Concept video showing off the applications behind Apple's "Futureshock" Knowledge Navigator concept device from 1987"



Apple's Knowledge Navigator Video

Jon Udell: Apple's Knowledge Navigator Revisited

Today we return to the informative "This Week in Apple History" series at The Mac Observer. The March 7-13 entry in the series by Owen Linzmayer & Bryan Chaffin is entitled, "Newton Pioneers Prepare To Leave, MessagePad 2000 Ships, Bunnies, Columbus".

March 7-13: Newton Pioneers Prepare To Leave, MessagePad 2000 Ships, Bunnies, Columbus

A great bit of history from Folklore.org. This tale by Andy Hertzfeld recalls Steve threatening to remove the Mac's sound capability. It begins:
"When Burrell redesigned the Macintosh digital board in August 1982 after the Integrated Burrell Machine effort fell apart, one of the most significant improvements involved the sound generation capability. All of the extra logic available in the IBM chip allowed Burrell to implement four simultaneous channels of sound, each using a custom wavetable. That was too expensive to keep without the custom chip, but he was able to maintain the fundamental capability, DMA-fetched sound using 8 bits per sample and a clever, pulse width modulated digital to analog converter."

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Sound By Monday

Today we return to the informative "This Week in Apple History" series at The Mac Observer. The March 1-6 entry in the series by Owen Linzmayer & Bryan Chaffin is entitled, "Gassée Born, Homebrew Starts, Raskin Out".

March 1-6: Gassée Born, Homebrew Starts, Raskin Out