“Look around. Many of the gadgets you see drew inspiration from the original Mac computer,” Anick Jesdanun reports for The Associated Press. “Computers at the time typically required people to type in commands. Once the Mac came out 30 years ago Friday, people could instead navigate with a graphical user interface. Available options were organized…
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“Two days after an advertising tease that captured the attention of nearly 100 million people during Super Bowl XVIII, Steve Jobs pulled the Macintosh out of a bag, inserted a disk into the machine and stood by as it talked,” Dan Farber reports for CNET. “Watching from the wings, an exhausted and exhilarated Mike Murray…
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“The Macintosh hardware was brought to life by several teams working in concert on everything from the logic board, disk drive and power supply to the mouse, plastic casing and factory production line,” Dan Farber reports for CNET. “Similarly, a small team of young and talented software engineers were writing the code that would bring…
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“Jobs, this year’s non-comedy Steve Jobs biopic, opened in theaters [Friday],” John-Michael Bond reports for TUAW. “The film stars Ashton Kutcher and follows Jobs from his humble college days through his rise, fall and eventual return to power at the company he helped found,” Bond reports. “Reviews have been mixed on the film itself, but…
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“With its professional-looking (for 1977) injection-molded case and a design aesthetic to match Jobs’ perfectionism, the Apple II was a breakthrough product for the time. But though it was years ahead of the kit-like Apple I that it was meant to replace, the Apple II still only offered a cassette drive,” Daniel Terdiman reports for…
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