◄ HowTo: Install packages on your Newton
Want to install a package on your MessagePad – like, say, an update to the Newton’s OS – but wondering how to get started? I noticed that my Newton 110′s OS was still stuck at version 1.2. I knew...
View Article◄ Apple.com, circa 1983
Imagine, if you will, an Apple Computer before the Macintosh, before the iPod, before the iPhone – shucks, before Steve Jobs was kicked out and brought back for Apple’s sprint to success. This is...
View Article◄ Biggest day ever
What you’re looking at is the high crest of some Mac appreciation wave that is only now breaking. I posted my Apple.com, circa 1983 picture on June 29 – three days after sharing it on Flickr. Since...
View Article◄ Apple.com, circa 1993
Here’s the tablet before the tablet. With all this talk of a tablet-type device set to descend from the foggy Olympus of Cupertino, I thought it might help to look back at Apple’s first flat computing...
View Article◄ More retro Apple.coms
In my original retro Apple.com post, I asked for others to take memorable moments in Apple’s history and mockup a web site. Matt Pearce did just that, as you can see, making five total Apple.com...
View Article◄ 1983 Apple.com – on the web
Hilarious. Someone who saw my 1983 Apple.com mockup made the spoof as an actual, working web site. As of now, the links all say “Coming Soon!” But man, wouldn’t it be cool to work out all the Apple...
View Article◄ Apple TV as odd-product out
The Apple TV has had an interesting history. Starting out, it accompanied the iPhone as Apple’s “next big thing,” even if its spotlight was dim in comparison with the iPhone’s. From then on, it became...
View Article◄ Disappeared: Apple’s Mac Download page
Chris Foresman at Ars Technica: A link to the Downloads page was also featured as one of the top navigation links on Apple’s website until a section for the iPad replaced it several weeks ago. Of...
View Article◄ Matt’s Macintosh: iMac G4 review
Matt Pearce, the guy behind Matt’s Macintosh, takes a look back at the revolutionary iMac G4 design. I like that his YouTube videos are both well-made and show an appreciation for all the old Mac and...
View Article◄ Apple.com, circa never (but we can wish)
It was soon after the iPad 2 announcement that the trouble started brewing. Thomas Brand on Twitter: “If you think the white iPad 2 looks cheap you should see the Bondie Blue model with pinstripes.”...
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