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August 6, 1997: Apple Board Shakeup 6 Aug 2011 | 05:04 pm
Looking at the list of Apple Presidents over the years, you'll note quite a bit of change. Starting with Michael Scott the position then went to Mike Markkula. Markkula was succeeded by John Scully wh...
August 5, 1997: The Return of ChiatDay 5 Aug 2011 | 05:00 pm
When Steve Jobs was ousted from Apple, Chiat\Day soon followed. Obviously, feeling the move was a mistake Steve took out an ad saying that Apple had made a huge blunder by axing Chiat\Day. In full co...
August 4, 1997: Think Different Campaign Revealed 4 Aug 2011 | 05:37 pm
What do John Lennon, Picasso, Albert Einstein, Muhammad Ali and Ted Turner all have in common? They were all featured as people who, ungrammatically, "Thought Different" in Apple first marketing campa...
August 3, 1993: Newton Debuts 3 Aug 2011 | 04:27 pm
Apple was counting on the Newton to replace the Mac as the company's primary source of income. Then President John Sculley had thrown all his weight behind the project and the engineers who worked on ...
August 2, 2005: Mighty Mouse Released 2 Aug 2011 | 05:00 pm
The debate about the one button mouse raged for years. Proponents claimed that the one button mouse was easier for novices to use and cited early Apple research to back up their claims. Those that dis...
August 1, 1997: The Definitive Boston MacWorld 1 Aug 2011 | 05:35 pm
At one time MacWorld Boston was the summer edition of MacWorld. New product introductions, vendor booths, the whole Apple MacWorld feel but on the East Coast and in the middle of summer. Alas, a Bost...
July 31, 1982: Lisa Works for the First Time 31 Jul 2011 | 05:34 pm
The Mac's roots are often traced to Xerox PARC. The deepest roots undoubtably tap into the desktop metaphor Apple employees first saw on at the PARC demonstration but the biggest influence on the Mac ...
July 30, 1979: Lisa Project Gets Rolling 30 Jul 2011 | 02:19 pm
Trip Hawkins (of Electronic Arts fame) and Steve Jobs were looking for a machine that would be better than the Apple II. They came up with a rather boring and conventional machine that was tagetted to...
July 29, 1993: Apple Introduces AV series of Computers 29 Jul 2011 | 04:19 pm
In the current computing climate the notion that you can get video from a source onto you computer is a given. That wasn't always the case. Apple pioneered the easy video import video market with thei...
July 28, 1945: As We May Think Published in Atlantic Monthly 28 Jul 2011 | 04:08 pm
Vannevar Bush was a prescient guy, and an individual whose influence on computers was vast but remains underrated. Bush had this to say about computers: " Consider a future device for individual use,...
