Posts Tagged ‘Macintosh’
History of Macintosh: a 42-Year Love Affair
Reading Time: 6 minutesHow 40 years ago the Apple Macintosh iconic personal computer forever changed how we think about computing.
Read MoreHistory of the IBM PC: 44 Years Ago – Why It Was So Important
Reading Time: 5 minutesHISTORY OF THE IBM PC: 44 YEARS AGO 44 years ago this week, the IBM PC was released. On August 12, 1981, IBM announced its first “personal computer,” though it had previously been renowned for its IBM System/370 mainframe computer. I operated one of these mainframes in a raised-floor data center back in the early…
Read MoreHistory of Apple Lisa, part 2: Meet Its Creators
Reading Time: 6 minutesHISTORY OF APPLE LISA, PART 2: MEET ITS CREATORS This week at the Computer History Museum’s “Happy 40th Birthday Lisa” event, Katie Hafner, former Computerworld writer, interviewed several of the creators of the Apple Lisa. Many more of the original development team were in the audience. This article follows my previous article on the History…
Read MoreHistory of Apple Lisa at 40: The Flop that Influenced Macintosh
Reading Time: 5 minutesHISTORY OF APPLE LISA AT 40: THE FLOP THAT INFLUENCED MACINTOSH Forty years ago, on January 19, 1983, Apple Computer introduced Lisa. It has well been called Apple’s biggest flop, but it’s accurate to say that without the Lisa computer, there would have been no Macintosh, and it is likely Microsoft Windows would not look…
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