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On January 24, 1984, during an Apple shareholders conference, Steve Jobs introduced the Macintosh, highlighting its ability to "speak" for itself and marking a revolutionary moment in personal ...
The first Macintosh with a colour screen, the Macintosh II, only arrived in 1987. The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge, England, is one of many collections that feature a functioning 128K.
Apple's Macintosh arrived with great fanfare, but the computer that aimed to show why 1984 wouldn't be like "1984" barely made its debut. Here's the story of how it came to be.
I never thought I'd be riveted by a history of the Macintosh Control Panel, but an article about its design evolution has brought out the Apple history nerd in me. And I especially didn't expect to ...
Apple’s venerable Macintosh computer, introduced with a shocking-for-its-time dystopian Super Bowl commercial in 1984, turns 40 today. The Macintosh revolutionized home computing and paved the ...
The Macintosh is portable, handle and all, because it likely would have been put away when its owner wasn’t working on it. Then, small screens were the norm, ...
Released 30 years ago this month, the Apple Macintosh revolutionized how artists and designers work. Here, we talk to a handful of creatives--including the inventor of MacPaint and the designer of ...
The Macintosh Performa was a family of personal computers designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. from 1992 to 1997. The Performa brand re-used models from Apple's Quadra, Centris, LC, ...
Now go out there and do it." — Former Apple CEO John Sculley, describing the launch of the Macintosh, in an essay penned commemorating the Mac’s 30th birthday in an essay for Cnet, Jan. 22, 2014.
The Macintosh TV even came with a remote control, something my decade-old dorm room holdover lacked. But that price! There was also the matter of the TV tuner.
In the demo video embedded below, you can see his 512k Macintosh in pieces because he’s been poking at it with a logic analyzer to verify the hardware does what he thinks it’s being told.