Today we return to the informative "This Week in Apple History" series at The Mac Observer. The June 21 - 30 entry in the series by Owen Linzmayer & Bryan Chaffin is entitled, "Bill Gates Offers To Help License Mac OS".

June 21 - 30: Bill Gates Offers To Help License Mac OS

Some folklore for Friday with this bit of Macintosh history at Folklore.org by Andy Hertzfeld. It Begins:
"One of the last parts of the Macintosh system software to be finished before freezing the ROM in September 1983 was the 'clipboard manager', which was the code responsible for facilitating cutting and pasting information between applications. The clipboard manager provided some simple calls to access and manipulate the 'clipboard', a memory buffer that held the last piece of data that was cut or copied. The trickiest part of the clipboard manager was the way it managed memory when the user quit an application."

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Today we return to the informative "This Week in Apple History" series at The Mac Observer. The June 14 - 20 entry in the series by Owen Linzmayer & Bryan Chaffin is entitled, "Lisa Born, Sculley Out, Spindler In, eWorld Now".

June 14 - 20: Lisa Born, Sculley Out, Spindler In, eWorld Now

Today we return to the informative "This Week in Apple History" series at The Mac Observer. The June 7 - 13 entry in the series by Owen Linzmayer & Bryan Chaffin is entitled, "The Woz Marries, Switcher Campaign Starts, IE Ended".

June 7 - 13: The Woz Marries, Switcher Campaign Starts, IE Ended

Today we return to the informative "This Week in Apple History" series at The Mac Observer. The June 1 - 6 entry in the series by Owen Linzmayer & Bryan Chaffin is entitled, "Capps Leaves Apple For Microsoft, eMac Goes Public".

June 1 - 6: Capps Leaves Apple For Microsoft, eMac Goes Public