This Week in Apple History
Today we again take a look back at 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
Apple I/Replica I and FORTH
A November 19, 2004 entry in the wkrWEB blog by Will Rodiger on the Apple 1 and Replica 1. It begins:
"The Apple I was a hobbyist's project in 1976 that turned into one of the early catalysts of the personal computer revolution. The simple elegance of the WOZ monitor (only 256 bytes!) and readily available parts made this computer accessible to everyone. Unfortunately, today only a few survive."
Apple I/Replica I and FORTH
Homebrew Computing Before the PC
An article from 1999 by Steve Williams at SBW.com recalling his experiences during the early history of personal computing.
It begins:
"On May 1, 1977, I packed everything I owned into my '67 Beetle and left Provo, Utah, for Palo Alto and the promise of a job programming microcomputers. I had no idea that I was heading into the core of the homebrew computing world, just as incredible progress was being made toward what we now call "personal computing."
My single year at Brigham Young University in Provo had been ignominious. I had failed political science, tested out of freshman English (after attending class for one day), dropped out of French, and audited a full year of calculus for no credit. About the only classes I stuck with were computer science under Dr. Alan Ashton and digital design in the Electrical Engineering department. I was required to attend the latter since I procrastinated on my registration until after the EE course for CS majors was full. We geek CS majors were very unpopular with the hipper EE majors, since we constantly disrupted their classes with questions like, 'Why build a discrete state machine when you could just stick a microprocessor in there?'"
Homebrew Computing Before the PC
Growing Apple with the Macintosh: The Sculley Years
Another great article by the talented Tom Hormby at Low End Mac. It details John Sculley's history from childhood, through his years at Apple and beyond.
Growing Apple with the Macintosh: The Sculley Years
This Week in Apple History
We return to the informative "This Week in Apple History" series at The Mac Observer. The February 22-29 entry in the series by Owen Linzmayer & Bryan Chaffin is entitled, "Happy Birthday Steve, Goodbye Newton & Don Crabb".
February 22-29: Happy Birthday Steve, Goodbye Newton & Don Crabb
On Xerox, Apple and Progress
A 1996 article at the great Apple History resource, Folklore.org by Bruce Horn discussing where the Mac user interface came from.
On Xerox, Apple and Progress
Apple Patents the Mouse
Lets round out the week with a look into the US Patent Office archives at patent number 04464652, issued Mar. 29, 1988 (a reissue of #04464652, Aug 07, 1984) granting Apple Computer, Inc. a patent for "Cursor control device". Below you will find links to both the abstract and the large images of each page.
Abstract: Re. 32,633, Cursor Control Device
Page images:
Cursor Control Device, Page 1
Cursor Control Device, Page 2
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This Week in Apple History
Today we again take a look back at the informative "This Week in Apple History" series at The Mac Observer. The February 15-21 entry in the series by Owen Linzmayer & Bryan Chaffin is entitled, "Flower Power, Dalmations, & The Supreme Court".
February 15-21: Flower Power, Dalmations, & The Supreme Court
Apple Computer Porsche
Today, a 1983 Apple Gift Catalog was added to The Mothership Advertising and Brochure Gallery, and as we were looking through those pages, one of the most striking images is that of a Porsche race car, sponsored by Apple. Well, with a little investigation we have found a source where that 1980 1/24 scale model kit is still available!
Island Collectibles, Inc. : Apple Porsche
Some Macworld Expo Keynotes
Some Keynotes in QuickTime have been added to this great page of Apple Ads. (Don't miss the Bill Gates "Pie in the face") Check it out!
Some Macworld Expo Keynotes
