The Apple Macintosh personal computer is an iconic piece of tech history—with an emphasis on the word history. Compared to ...

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Today is the 30th anniversary of the introduction of the Macintosh. The original “Mac” arrived along with the famous 1984 commercial, aired just once (but then aired many times on local and network ...

The Mac turns 40 today. Longtime Apple fan Alfred DiBlasi is a bit older. Photo: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac Back in the early 1980s, Alfred DiBlasi made his bones selling tons of Apple computers on ...

Technology innovation requires solving hard technical problems, right? Well, yes. And no. As the Apple Macintosh turns 40, what began as Apple prioritizing the squishy concept of “user experience” in ...

Bill Atkinson, a pioneering computer engineer and programmer at Apple, instrumental in the creation of the Macintosh computer in January 1984, died June 5. Atkinson, 74, passed away at his home in ...

The original Macintosh computer may seem quaint today, but the way users interacted with it was game-changing. Mark Mathosian/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA Technology innovation requires solving hard technical ...

One of two Apple Macintosh prototypes extant and already the most valuable Apple Macintosh to have ever sold at auction, #M0001 is heading for auction at Bonhams’ History of Science & Technology Sale ...

Sure, it looks charmingly retro today. But the little Macintosh computer introduced in 1984 was a daring machine in its time—and its influence on everything Apple does has been profound. As I probably ...

A designer for Apple, he created software that made it possible to display shapes, images and text on the screen and present a simulated “desktop.” By John Markoff Bill Atkinson, the Apple Computer ...

In 2019, this ‘Twiggy’ Mac prototype sold for just over $150K. In 2019, this ‘Twiggy’ Mac prototype sold for just over $150K. is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets ...

Working for the the school system I was in while I was a high school student (cheap labor in the early to mid 90’s), I got to see nearly every make and model of Mac released during that time, along ...