Today marks the 40th anniversary of Steve Jobs unveiling the Macintosh, which would be the first successful mass-marketed computer with a graphical user interface. The original Macintosh, released in 1984 introduced and popularized the computer mouse, allowing for a new type of navigation that was still a novel concept to most people at the time. […]
In what is a just plain spiffy documentary, we present a clip from “In Search of Excellence,” a documentary produced by John Nathan based on Tom Peter’s book that profiled six unique companies. The following segment was filmed in the summer of 1984 and highlighted Apple Computer and the original Macintosh team, complete with its […]
This is about as true a labor of Mac love and geekiness as it gets. The cool cats over at the Internet Archive have worked out an in-browser emulation engine for early models of the Apple Macintosh. While there are certainly predecessors to the computer desktop paradigm, the introduction of the Macintosh brought it to […]
It’s not every day that you get a chance to be an extra in a Steve Jobs biopic. Over in Cupertino, thousands of people replied to a casting call over the weekend to be an extra in the Steve Jobs biopic with scenes being filmed at the Flint Center where Jobs unveiled the original Macintosh […]
It’s more a picture than anything. Over on Things of Interest, someone overlaid the original Apple Macintosh, which was released in 1984 and shipped with a black-and-white 512 x 342 display. Fast forward 30 years to the release of the iMac with Retina 5K display, which ships with a 5,120 x 2,880 display with support […]