Apple PowerBook Duo Ad - It Could Transform Itself

Another interesting 1981 tale from the inside at Folklore.org, this time by Daniel Kottke. It Begins:
"When I started with the Mac team in Jan ’81 there was just one wire-wrapped 68000 prototype, so my first job was to start making more protos along with Brian (‘Uncle Dougie’) Howard – who technically was a writer working under Jef but had been handling many of the hardware build-and-debug tasks for Burrell. Between the two of us Brian and I built another 4 or 5 prototypes for use by the programmers."

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Macintosh Prototypes

From VintageMacWorld.com comes this page documenting an uncommon experience indeed! It Begins:
"The Twentieth Anniversary Mac TAM) was produced to celebrate 20 years of the Apple Computer company, not 20 years of Macs. Apple was founded in 1976 so the TAM was late when it arrived in early 1997. It was intended as an advanced system for the home with a design that would blend into a living room or study. Features like the TV and FM radio tuner also aimed the TAM at home users."

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Unboxing a Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh (TAM)

Today we return to the informative "This Week in Apple History" series at The Mac Observer. The October 24-31 entry in the series by Owen Linzmayer & Bryan Chaffin is entitled, "Sculley's Gift to Microsoft, Panther Released".

October 24-31: Sculley's Gift to Microsoft, Panther Released

Another YouTube find!



Apple PowerBook Ad - First Network at 30,000 Feet

Today we return to the magical Wayback Machine at Archive.org to retrieve another lost nugget. This 1994 article by Chris Oakes, discussing Apple's ill-fated online service eWorld, is originally from Creative Mac.
It begins:
"A small city sits atop a green hill beneath a sunny sky - this quaint scene, drawn in the style of a New Yorker cover, is the entry to eWorld, Apple's new online service.
Apple hopes this small town metaphor will attract millions of Americans who have yet to take the online plunge. These would-be surfers, Apple believes, have simply felt uncomfortable with going online. Online services' interfaces are too complicated, too difficult to navigate, and, consequently, the overwhelming amounts of information they contain have been, well, too overwhelming."

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An Online Sense of Place (But It's Still a Small eWorld, after all)

Today we return to the informative "This Week in Apple History" series at The Mac Observer. The October 17-23 entry in the series by Owen Linzmayer & Bryan Chaffin is entitled, "1984, MessagePad 2100, OS 8.5, 9".

October 17-23: "1984", MessagePad 2100, OS 8.5, 9

Another YouTube find - this time a great PowerBook ad - "It will let you run away"!



Apple PowerBook Ad - It Will Let You Run Away

Today we present an interesting interview with Wendell Sander, Ph.D. by David Ottalini at The DigiBarn Computer Museum. Originally published in The /// Magazine, November, 1986 Issue.

Interview with Wendell Sander

Today we return to the informative "This Week in Apple History" series at The Mac Observer. The October 10-16 entry in the series by Owen Linzmayer & Bryan Chaffin is entitled, "NeXT Cube, Sculley Out, Rhapsody Seeds".

October 10-16: NeXT Cube, Sculley Out, Rhapsody Seeds

This one is a real slice of the early 80's - check out that school fashion!



Apple IIe ad - influences

A 2004 article at MacUser with the late Jeff Raskin begins:
"Jeff Raskin, the man who conceived the Macintosh, has described its latest iterations as a 'mess' in an interview with The Guardian. His comments echo those in a recent interview with Macuser."

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MacUser Interview: Jeff Raskin

Here is another great YouTube find - the Macintosh "Crocodiles" ad!



Apple Macintosh Ad - Crocodiles

Today we return to the informative "This Week in Apple History" series at The Mac Observer. The October 1-9 entry in the series by Owen Linzmayer & Bryan Chaffin is entitled, "Apple Pay Beatles, Apple & IBM Partner, BeBox".

October 1-9: Apple Pay Beatles, Apple & IBM Partner, BeBox