Not so fast, Cheetah!
Twentyfive years ago, in 2001, Apple released the first, proper version of the next (or: should we write it as NeXT?) generation of operating system software for the...
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Why the iPhone won
We are living in the age of the iPhone or, if you will, in the age of the computerphone, which – in just a handful of years –...
Who were the people with Jobs at the NeXT Cube introduction?
The group picture you can see in “Steve Jobs’ NeXT computer” was taken on the 12th of October 1988, at the NeXT Cube introduction to the media. Here’s...
Steve Jobs’ NeXT computer
Roughly thirty years ago, in October 1988, at a lavish, invitation-only gala event, Steve Jobs introduced to the press the NeXT Computer. It was a black cube-shaped workstation...
Woz on Apple not advertising the Apple II from 1980 to 1983
Sometimes memory tricks you and perception heavily differs from reality. Case in point, Apple cofounder and technical genius Steven Gary “Woz” Wozniak who in Jessica Livingston’s 2007 book...
An informal history of Macintosh “emulation”: 1988-1995 The Finder in A/UX
A/UX was Apple’s first implementation of the Unix operating system for Macintosh computers. First released in 1988, it was supposedly developed to bid for large contracts to supply...